Principal Architect, AI & Cloud Platform

Cox Automotive Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive's architecture group is reimagining the car-buying and service experience across the retail lifecycle. The Principal Solution Architect provides technical leadership, advances platform modernization, and drives AI initiatives across CAI services.

Responsibilities include shaping epics, prioritizing investments, and producing architecture roadmaps, with an emphasis on reusable patterns and governance across the value stream.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with 10 years' experience, or a combination per the job text.
• Ability to align diverse stakeholders around technical direction and drive consensus.
• Highly analytical and capable of rapid proof-of-concepts and experimentation.
• Breadth of architectural knowledge across application, integration, and platform domains.
• Extensive experience in API delivery at scale using GraphQL and REST.
• Strong cloud experience, with AWS preferred.
• Hands-on experience with AI technologies and concepts (LLMs, vector databases, etc.).
• Experience working in a DevOps culture with automation and CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive solution design from discovery through delivery - shaping epics, validating assumptions, surfacing risks early, and aligning across teams to target architecture.
• Partner with engineering, product, and agile leaders to sequence and prioritize architectural investments, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health.
• Champion adoption of Cox Automotive's Common tenancy and user management platforms and AWS-native patterns within the value stream.
• Identify, evaluate, and champion generative AI capabilities for new products and features, aligning implementations with standards and reusable patterns.
• Produce and maintain architectural artifacts - roadmaps, decision records, solution diagrams, integration models - for actionable direction.
• Assess emerging AI technologies and coordinate with governance to ensure standards are addressed.
• Promote reusable patterns and frameworks to accelerate Product development and AI adoption.
• Translate business objectives into practical solution options, trade-offs, and technical recommendations.
• Build engineering teams' AI capabilities through mentoring and design reviews.
• Lead proofs of concept and reference implementations to validate assumptions and reduce delivery risk.

Skills

Architectural leadership

API delivery at scale

AWS experience

AI technologies

DevOps culture

Stakeholder alignment

GraphQL/REST APIs

Proof of concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Master's degree in related field

Ph.D. in related field

Tools

GraphQL

REST APIs

AWS

Job description

Cox Automotive's architecture group is reimagining the car-buying and service experience across the retail lifecycle. The Principal Solution Architect provides technical leadership, advances platform modernization, and drives AI initiatives across CAI services.

Responsibilities include shaping epics, prioritizing investments, and producing architecture roadmaps, with an emphasis on reusable patterns and governance across the value stream.