Cox Automotive is looking for Lead Solution Architect. The ideal candidate for this role:

• Responsible for architecture in the Client Foundatation release team in the Commercial Consignor Solutions delivery stream, architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet the requirements for the initiatives.
• Collaborate with architects, engineering, product, user experience, and agile leaders to establish and scale solutions with a common technological and architectural vision delivered in the AWS cloud.
• Drive the definition of architectural styles and patterns necessary to deliver the functional and non-functional requirements, validate solutions, identify risks and dependencies, and evaluate alternatives through hands-on research, discovery, and prototyping.
• Support solution development by providing, communicating, and evolving the greater technological and architectural view of the solution.
• Frame solution alternatives in both technology and business terms, ensuring that product and business decisions are not made in isolation of their technical implications, and vice versa.

Responsibilities:
Architecture Vision and Direction:

• Contributes to the technology strategy by identifying, assessing, and recommending external trends in technology, technology solutions, and methodologies.
• Exercises solution design leadership on initiatives, driving alignment to target architecture and design standards.
• Facilitates architecture reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.
• Mentors engineers on business knowledge, technology, and career guidance.
• Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and failing forward, providing opportunities for engineers to learn from each other's successes and challenges.

Solution Architecture Development

• Creates solution options and solution architecture, adhering to architectural standards and the technology roadmap, and minimizing technical debt.
• Design solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains.
• Drives alignment between Enterprise Architecture, Technical Architecture, and business needs.
• Participates in application rationalization and the development of application architecture roadmaps.
• Identifies applications and platforms impacted by the solution, the need for new platforms, and drives platform selection.
• Contributes to the backlog of the development team.
• Facilitates large groups of diverse stakeholders to obtain consensus on target solution

Technology Monitoring & Evaluation:

• Evaluates emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies to define a future vision roadmap for optimal applications of technology to meet business needs.
• Recommends improvements to technology and processes that increase the effectiveness of the team.

• Creates proof of concepts to determine the viability of new or different technologies.
• Oversees and facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology.

Qualif ications:

• 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
• 10+ years of experience in full development life cycle and significant experience in delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.

• 5+ years of experience in the implementation of structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment.
• Software development background in modern server-side computing stacks
• Strong background with AWS Services and offerings with a focus on Serverless patterns
• Strong background in API design patterns including RESTful APIs, and other architectural integration patterns.
• A solid understanding of the solutions architecture of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems integration, and cloud computing platforms is strongly desired
• Deep understanding of the architecture discipline, processes, and concepts.
• Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including the ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organizational levels.

USD 117,300.00 - 195,500.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $117,300.00 - $195,500.00. 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.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
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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