Senior Principal Architect (m/f/x)

HERE Technologies; München; Hybrid; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology platform company in Germany seeks a Senior Principal Architect with over 12 years of experience. The role involves designing impactful architectures for automotive solutions and engaging with various stakeholders. Relevant expertise in navigation and automated driving systems is essential. The position supports a hybrid work environment, offering competitive compensation and numerous perks.

Leistungen

Great work-life balance

Hybrid model of work

30 paid vacation days

German language course

Access to Insight Timer app

Qualifikationen

• 12+ years of experience delivering software products or systems.
• Deep domain knowledge of Navigation and AD systems.
• Experience with digital map products or big data analysis is an advantage.

Aufgaben

• Designing architectures for strategic customer use cases.
• Engaging with stakeholders to derive insights and design solutions.
• Guiding engineering teams to align implementations with architecture.

Kenntnisse

Customer-centric solutions

Stakeholder management

Automotive positioning

Real-time map updates

Software architecture

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Principal Architect (m/f/x)

Job Locations: DE-Munich | DE-Schwalbach | DE-Berlin

Requisition ID: 2025-78523

Category: Research & Development

What's the role?

HERE Architecture team is embedded inside a Platform and Technology organization. The architecture group has a deep visibility and influence over how various software products are designed, implemented and maintained at HERE. Solution architecture brings customer-centricity to the group by working with strategic HERE customers worldwide to build solutions for their use cases leveraging the HERE location platform. The team's outputs impact customer success and HERE's competitiveness and success, with architecture work often in both customer and management spotlight while engaging with engineers on finer technical details.

About the role:

As a Senior/ Principal Architect for Automotive in HERE Architecture team, you will be responsible for:

• Designing robust architectures that realize strategic customer use cases with material impact on customer success and HERE's business.
• Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to understand problems, derive insights, design architecture, and articulate solutions to engineering, product, sales, and customers.
• Demonstrating leadership by guiding engineering teams to build implementations aligned with the architecture, addressing performance, scalability, security/privacy, and fault tolerance.
• Defining and evolving the process around how the architecture supports HERE business.
• Analyzing customer requirements from channels like RFQ, understanding customer needs, engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders, building a comprehensive solution architecture, and supporting the project lifecycle from nomination to delivery.

Who are you?

• 12+ years of experience delivering software products or systems in various roles.
• Passionate about helping customers succeed by enabling solutions that create maximum value.
• Subject Matter Expert in building SDV solutions for navigation and/or automated driving systems.
• Deep domain knowledge of Navigation and/or AD systems, ADAS, and connected cars: automotive positioning, vehicle sensor data, environmental model building.
• Experience with digital map products, crowd-sourced data products, or big data analysis is an advantage.
• Experience in automotive, Navigation systems, ADAS, automated driving, cloud services, automotive software, map data, Navigation Data Standard (NDS).
• Identify key landmarks and triggers for vision perception to create and update HD Maps.
• Drive KPIs for real-time map updates, data pipeline inputs, latency, and scalability.
• Experience with vehicle E/E architectures and the implications of connected vehicles and map delivery ecosystems.
• Familiarity with industry standards and related regulations.
• Deep prior experience in software engineering, building customer-facing products/systems and stakeholder management.
• Experience in the automotive industry with engagement models and RFx procedures with OEMs.
• Customer-centric, solution-oriented, and actionable approach to solving business problems.
• Ability to build robust software architecture while incorporating feedback from customers, PoCs, markets and peers.
• Detailed knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP is an advantage.

The role can be based anywhere in Germany.

What we offer:

• A great work-life balance
• Hybrid model of work
• Challenging problems to solve
• Collaborative and encouraging colleagues
• Opportunities to learn, grow and develop: company hackathons, technical talks, and trainings
• Regular feedback
• 30 paid vacation days
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive salary plus bonus
• BVG company ticket (in Berlin)
• German language course
• Access to Insight Timer app for sessions on meditation, yoga, etc.
• Diverse team of fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide.
• Brown bag talks, team events, BBQ on the rooftop and more!

Change is HERE. Apply Now!

Our culture is founded on openness, collaboration and honesty, with colleagues who are brilliant in their field, helpful, resilient, loyal and strive for the best. One team where everyone makes a difference and everyone is heard.

HERE Technologies employment process includes a pre-employment screening process. The offer and related claims are subject to successful completion of this screening, which may include employment, education, and criminal verification where applicable.

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Who are we?

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes—from helping a city manage its infrastructure to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people's lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. For more, learn about us on our YouTube channel.

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