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 collaborate closely with the Release Train Architect and work on designing next-generation customer-facing software-as-a-service applications including contributing to the success of

• Cloud native applications in AWS
• Application modernization to microservices
• Portfolio rationalization that consolidates back-end systems and duplicative integrations
• 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.
• Communicate application risk present in unremedied architectural tech debt and identify mitigation strategy.
• Define architecture solutions aligned to target state architecture and collaborate with Product, Engineering for their implementation.
• Facilitate design discussions and drive technical design reviews.
• Participate in Well Architected Framework reviews and identify solutions to mitigate risks.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert to engineering.

• Assist with the adoption of architecture standards.
• Assist with improving architecture practices.
• Leverage enterprise, portfolio patterns and standards as appropriate.
• 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.

Leadership Qualifications

• At ease advocating for technical solutions and enjoy the challenge of influencing others.
• Ability to write high quality technical documentation.
• Ability to manage conflict and maintain productive working relationships.

Technical Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or relevant industry experience.
• Ability to code in any language using any technology stack through self-teaching.
• SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure services and solution architectures.
• REST API design and microservice implementation.
• Object-oriented design including common patterns.

• Distributed systems.
• Docker, Kubernetes, and other container technologies.
• .NET Core, Java and/or a willingness to become an expert.
• Automotive industry experience or a willingness to become an expert.

Experience

• 10 years of experience in software development for mid-size to large corporations.
• Preferred working experience as a solution or technical architect.

USD 129,000.00 - 215,100.00 per year
About Cox Automotive
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!
About Cox
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page .
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