Lead Technical Architect

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Lead Architect

Management Level

Manager - Non People Leader

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $129,000.00 - $215,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

Cox Automotive, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, is seeking a Lead Technical Architect to join our team!

Cox Automotive offers the chance to take a leading role in the digital revolution of the automotive industry. We are on a journey to transform our product portfolio into a broad offering of reusable services delivered in the cloud, enabling the rapid delivery of industry-leading experiences that customers love. Architects are the technological change agents delivering this modernization and innovation. They are energetic influencers that build world-class solutions for key Cox Automotive business domains including vehicle valuation, acquisition, pricing, inventory management, and merchandising.  

As a Lead architect, you will work on designing next-generation customer-facing software-as-a-service applications including contributing to the success of:

• A mix of modern and legacy applications in AWS  

• Application modernization 

• Portfolio rationalization that consolidates system integrations and duplicative platforms

• Business, product, and engineering collaborations 

• Technical standards definition 

• Modern technology adoption 

• Meeting performance, availability, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security SLAs 

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate on the target state architecture and the value-driven, iterative roadmap for getting there.

• Identify and communicate  architectural risk and develop mitigation strategies. 

• Define architecture solutions aligned to target state architecture and collaborate with Product, and Engineering for implementation. 

• Facilitate design discussions and drive technical design reviews. 

• Participate in AWS Well Architected Reviews and develop solutions to mitigate risks.

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert to engineering. 

• Assist with improving architecture practices. 

• Leverage enterprise, portfolio patterns and standards as appropriate. 

• Identify and develop enterprise capabilities and look for opportunities to leverage existing enterprise capabilities.

• Assist with governing software development to ensure satisfaction of non-functional requirements. 

• Build software prototypes to validate architecture approaches and assess emerging technologies. 

• Drive effective communication between cross-functional teams, including developers, QA, operations, and business stakeholders, to ensure alignment and clarity surrounding architecture decisions and future architecture direction.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders by consistently demonstrating technical expertise, reliability, and a clear understanding of business goals.

Leadership Qualifications 

• At ease advocating for technical solutions and driving change through influence. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to manage conflict and maintain productive working relationships. 

Technical Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 4 years’experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 18 years’ experience in a related field

• ​Ability to code.

• SQL and NoSQL database technologies. 

• AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure services and solution architectures. 

• REST API design and microservice implementation. 

• Managing distributed systems. 

• Docker, Kubernetes, or other container technologies. 

• .NET Core (preferred) or