Job Description
As an Architect for Inventory Management Solutions (IMS), you will drive the design of next-generation Cox-wide common services and customer-facing software-as-a-service applications including owning 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
- New technology adoption
- Meeting performance, availability, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security SLAs
Your role
- Serve as a cloud technology thought leader.
- Partner with architecture and engineering leaders to drive alignment on the right balance between consistency and flexibility in our cloud adoption approach.
- Define and maintain a rationalized catalog of technologies, patterns, and processes to help teams chart their cloud adoption journey while achieving both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Identify and prioritize engineering enablement opportunities to help accelerate this journey.
- Support the architecture and engineering organization as teams develop target-state architectures and execute on product roadmaps that include cloud-related technology.
- Develop and advocate for technology guidelines that enable teams to deliver solutions meeting industry, vendor, and/or enterprise standards and best practices.
- Serve as a liaison to the broader enterprise on cloud-related topics – socializing patterns, sharing successes, and acting as the primary point of contact for our Cloud Business Office (CBO).
- Build software prototypes as necessary to validate architecture approaches and assess emerging technologies.
Qualifications:
- Where permitted by applicable law, must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be considered for this U.S.
based job.
(Reasonable accommodations for medical and religious objections will be considered.)
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10+ years of experience in software development for mid-size to large corporations
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5+ years of working experience as a solution or technical architect
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3+ years of experience with architecting and engineering AWS cloud-based solutions
Leadership
- At ease advocating for technical solutions and enjoy the challenge of influencing others
- Ability to write high-quality blog posts and technical documentation
- Ability to represent Cox Automotive in the industry through conference presentations
- Ability to serve as a technology mentor, facilitating the growth of Cox Automotive colleagues
- Ability to manage conflict and maintain productive working relationships
Technical
- Hand-on AWS cloud-native application design and architecture experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or relevant industry experience
- Ability to code in any language using any technology stack through self-teaching
- SQL and NoSQL database technologies
- Distributed systems
- Docker, Kubernetes, and other container technologies