Software Architect

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we’ve been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, whether that’s by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set a new standard of care, or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. Our team of more than 600 people works across industries including aerospace, medical devices and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicles, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.
 
ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.
 
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Job Description

Looking for a Software Architect to be a part of a distributed embedded android project that develops automotive infotainment and connectivity products for next gen autonomous vehicles. You will have the opportunity to own end to end solutions of the assigned software components. 

 Responsibilities 

• Independently own the full life cycle of software architecture for assigned projects and create or maintain design documents.
• Independently create or modify logical separation of software space (partitioning) per requirements.
• Independently configure and validate A2B related audio changes using hardware and software systems.
• Independently elicit, analyze and baseline requirements per internal/external customer interfaces and develop use cases.
• Independently prototype and validate proof of concepts as needed. 
• Independently conduct and lead technical feasibility studies for RFI, RFQ, RFP and change requests and, provide architecture documents and estimates.
• Define and drive the personalized solution proposals customer specific needs by collaborating with both customer and engineering teams.   
• Support software development team with design reviews, implementation related questions and code reviews to ensure implementations follow the designs.
• Support test team in improving test cases and resolving failed test
• Support customer with root cause and countermeasure and recovery planning.
• Collaborate with the PM to identify technical debt and lead the execution in reducing it.
• Participate in SEPG activities including design reviews.
• Collaborate on cross functional root causing workshops with 3rd party vendors and customers.
• Occasional visit to customer site to troubleshoot high profile issues.
• Use SDLC tool chain for day-to-day development activities (code commits and review via git/gerrit, Android Studio and gradle for application development and build, Ubuntu build machine for AOSP builds when required, VISO like software for software design diagrams)
• Ability to carry out high-level objectives without needing detailed task breakdown and schedule progress follow-ups. 

Success Indicators 

• Breakdown deliverables into smaller tasks for software developers and cross check estimates and ensure they are not too high or too low.
• Proactive identification of issues, providing management with solutions to identified issues while clarifying tradeoffs and risks and, leading solution implementation with the cross-functional team or independent implementation. 
• Identify technical risks in meeting schedule during planning and provide alternative technical strategies.
• Demonstrate that alternatives and trade-off are consid