Senior Application Domain Architect & Strategy Leader

Mazda Motor Corporation; Heber (UT); À distance; USD 124 000 - 189 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mazda Motor Corporation in the United States is seeking a Manager, Application Domain Architecture to lead architecture strategy, governance, and roadmaps across assigned domains. You will translate business needs into scalable technology solutions and drive modernization while ensuring cybersecurity and enterprise alignment.

The role requires strong leadership in a matrix environment, experience with architecture governance, and collaboration with business and IT leaders to deliver value for

Qualifications

• Knowledge of application architecture principles, technology roadmaps, and architecture governance practices (Advanced-Authority)
• Knowledge of enterprise application platforms, systems integration, and cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure or AWS (Advanced-Authority)
• Ability to partner with business and technology stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with organizational goals. (Intermediate-Advanced)
• Leadership, communication, and relationship management skills in a matrixed environment (Intermediate-Advanced)
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and recommend scalable, secure, and sustainable solutions (Intermediate-Advanced)

Responsabilités

• Define and maintain the target-state architecture and multi-year technology roadmap for assigned application domains.
• Evaluate current-state capabilities, technical debt, application lifecycle needs, and modernization opportunities.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to translate strategic objectives into technology capabilities and investment priorities.
• Ensure application architecture supports enterprise objectives, scalability, operational efficiency, and long-term business needs.
• Develop and maintain application architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide governance across technology initiatives and solution designs.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, data governance, and operational best practices.
• Provide architectural oversight throughout the solution lifecycle to promote consistency, quality, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, development teams, infrastructure teams, and enterprise architects to define scalable technology solutions.
• Ensure application portfolios support evolving business capabilities and operational requirements.
• Facilitate integration strategies and solution alignment across applications, platforms, and enterprise services.
• Partner with Mazda Corporation (MC) and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment with global technology direction and standards.
• Ensure alignment between application technical architecture and enterprise architecture team(s)
• Monitor emerging technologies, industry trends, and architectural practices to identify opportunities for business value.
• Lead technology evaluations, proof-of-concept initiatives, and architecture assessments.
• Recommend adoption strategies that improve agility, scalability, security, and operational effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve long-term platform sustainability.
• Drive continuous improvement and modernization efforts across the application portfolio.
• Lead, develop, and retain a team of architects and technical professionals, establishing clear goals and expectations aligned with department and organizational objectives.
• Manage employee performance through coaching, feedback, development planning, and formal performance management processes; accountable for team performance outcomes.
• Allocate resources, prioritize work, and balance team capacity to ensure delivery of strategic initiatives and operational objectives.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement while promoting technical excellence and knowledge sharing.
• Lead workforce planning, succession planning, talent acquisition, and employee development efforts to build current and future organizational capability.
• Manage team budgets, staffing plans, and resource investments, ensuring alignment with business priorities and financial objectives.
• Reinforce Mazda's values, leadership expectations, and organizational culture through day-to-day leadership, recognition, communication, and talent decisions.
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Comply with all policies and standards
• The preceding functions have been provided as examples of the types of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job

Connaissances

Application architecture

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Leadership & stakeholder mgmt

Architecture governance

Strategic planning & roadmaps

Communication & relationship mgmt

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

Outils

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Description du poste

Mazda Motor Corporation in the United States is seeking a Manager, Application Domain Architecture to lead architecture strategy, governance, and roadmaps across assigned domains. You will translate business needs into scalable technology solutions and drive modernization while ensuring cybersecurity and enterprise alignment.

The role requires strong leadership in a matrix environment, experience with architecture governance, and collaboration with business and IT leaders to deliver value for