Lead Platform Architect: AI & Cloud Modernization

Cox Enterprises; Draper (UT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive's architecture group is reimagining the car-buying and service experience across inventory, shopping, service, and deal inception to close. The Lead Architect provides technical leadership for key Cox Automotive products, advancing platform modernization, solution architecture, and AI initiatives across CAI services.

The Lead Architect defines architectural vision, drives design from discovery to delivery, partners with engineering and product leaders, and champions AI, tenancy

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years in architecture or related field.
• Proven ability to align stakeholders around technical direction across teams.
• Analytical, capable of deep technical dives and rapid PoC delivery.
• Broad architectural knowledge across apps, integrations, and platforms.
• Extensive experience in API delivery at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architectural vision across delivery teams.
• Drive solution design from discovery through delivery and align target architecture.
• Partner with engineering, product, and agile leaders to prioritize architectural investments.
• Identify and reduce technical debt in the deal initiation surface.
• Champion adoption of tenancy and AWS-native patterns within the value stream.
• Identify and champion the use of Gen AI within new products and features.

Skills

API design

GraphQL

REST APIs

AWS

DevOps

Python

Node.js

AI/GenAI

Architecture

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Tools

GraphQL

REST APIs

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

Job description

Cox Automotive's architecture group is reimagining the car-buying and service experience across inventory, shopping, service, and deal inception to close. The Lead Architect provides technical leadership for key Cox Automotive products, advancing platform modernization, solution architecture, and AI initiatives across CAI services.

The Lead Architect defines architectural vision, drives design from discovery to delivery, partners with engineering and product leaders, and champions AI, tenancy