Principal Architect

Cox; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 163,400 - 272,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation with pay

7 paid holidays annually

Wellness program (up to 160 hours/year

Job summary

Cox Automotive is seeking a senior architect to lead platform direction for omni-channel and API-driven solutions. You will partner with product and engineering leadership to align on a shared technology direction and to enable teams to deliver value quickly.

The role involves collaboration with stakeholders, vendors, and customers to define interfaces, components, and subsystems, ensuring non-functional requirements are met and architectural runway for upcoming features is established.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline; 10 years' related experience or equivalents as described in ad.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and AWS.
• 8+ years delivering mission-critical applications in production.
• API-first development using serverless, containers, and distributed architectures.
• Strong knowledge of OIDC, SAML, SCIM, SQL/NoSQL, and modern web stacks.
• 4+ years as a solution or technical architect.

Responsibilities

• Set platform architectural direction and long-term vision.
• Plan, define, and design solutions across multiple Release Trains; identify dependencies.
• Guide engineers and architects in requirements, interfaces, and delivery automation.
• Identify architectural runway to support upcoming features; prioritize with product/engineering.
• Frame architectural options in business terms and assess economic impact.
• Advocate for sound architectural solutions at all levels of the organization.
• Establish non-functional requirements at platform level.
• Promote reuse of shared capabilities across Cox Automotive.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

API-first design

Solution architecture

Node.js

Python

Java

React

JavaScript/TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Master's degree / PhD options closer experience

14+ years related field experience

Tools

OIDC

SAML

SCIM

SQL

NoSQL

AWS

Job description

Cox Automotive offers you the chance to take a leading role in the digital revolution of the automotive industry. We are on a journey to build out new omni channel experiences, B2B APIs, and Gen AI capabilities for automotive retailers. You will partner with our product and engineering leadership to solve key consumer problems and deliver connected client experiences for car dealerships including: CRM, desking, FNI, vehicle valuation, acquisition, pricing, inventory management, merchandising, servicing, and delivery. We are looking for someone with deep automotive experience who knows what it takes to make complex workloads work together.

The right individual balances product solutioning with hands-on technical discovery and is able to influence the larger community of software engineers and product owners to align everyone to a shared technology direction and strategy. While providing a general view of the solution architecture, they enable implementation teams to make local decisions to provide a faster flow of value and better economics.

This role involves tight collaboration with business stakeholders, teams, vendors, partners, and customers in defining the technology infrastructure, decomposition into components and subsystems, and the definition of interfaces between subsystems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Set the platform architectural direction, long-term vision, and guiding principles.
• Participate in the planning, definition, and high-level design of the solutions. Work with multiple Release Trains to identify dependencies and define integration strategies.
• Provide guidance to engineers and technical architects in clarifying requirements, allocating responsibilities to subsystems, defining interfaces, and stablishing delivery automation and testing strategies.
• Identify required architectural runway in support of upcoming business features and capabilities. Work with product and engineering counterparts to ensure that it is prioritized and delivered.
• Frame technical and architectural alternatives in business terms, clearly articulating both business and technical implications of various options. Operate within the retail platform's financial framework to validate the economic impact of design decisions.
• Champion sound architectural solutions and effectively advocate for them at all levels of the organization.
• Establish critical non-functional requirements at the platform level.
• Partner with other areas of Cox Automotive to promote the strategic development and re-use of shared capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years' experience in a related field; or 14 years' experience in a related field.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and delivering software and services leveraging cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
• 8 years of experience in full development life cycle and significant experience in delivering mission-critical applications and services in a production environment for a industry.
• Experience building software with API-first approach using serverless technologies, containers, and distributed architectures.
• Strong foundational knowledge of software engineering and familiarity with various technologies such as OIDC, SAML, SCIM, SQL, NoSQL, Node.js, Python, Java, React, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience building, integrating, and testing complex software products composed by multiple workloads and teams.
• Requires strong knowledge of
• Exemplary consulting skills and a track record of applying these skills as a practicing architect. Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels. Skills to work effectively with teams throughout organization.
• 4 years of experience as a solution or technical architect.

USD 163,400.00 - 272,300.00

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $163,400.00 - $272,300.00. 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, and parental leave.

EOE, including disability/vets