Senior Applications Architect - AI & API Systems

American Honda Motor Company, Inc.; Raymond (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Base Salary

Regional Bonus

Relocation Assistance

401K Plan with company match

Job summary

Honda is seeking an Applications Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership for manufacturing systems, application integration, and digital transformation across development and manufacturing IT environments.

This role drives standards for APIs, event-driven architectures, containerization, security, and AI integration, while mentoring teams and translating enterprise standards into practical templates and reusable solutions.

Qualifications

• Must have a college level Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Data Science / Artificial Intelligence / Information Technology or a similar STEM field of study.
• Must have at least 8 years of experience in IT or software engineering, including 3 or more years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong expertise in two or more areas such as enterprise integration, API architecture, networking, OpenShift/container platforms, event-driven systems, streaming technologies, security frameworks (OAuth2, mTLS, Zero Trust), cloud/hybrid environments, or AI/ML integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise interface strategy and digital integration standards, including APIs, event-driven architectures, data flows, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Drive adoption of container platforms such as OpenShift, CI/CD practices, and secure deployment patterns.
• Define and implement security standards including authentication, authorization, data protection, and AI governance.
• Establish scalable AI integration approaches including LLMs, agent orchestration, MCP, RAG, and model-serving pipelines.
• Guide streaming and event-driven data architectures, optimize performance and cost, and ensure seamless enterprise-to-plant connectivity.
• Partner with architecture, security, infrastructure, vendors, and product teams to align solutions with business and technology objectives.

Skills

Enterprise integration

API architecture

OpenShift

Event-driven systems

Security frameworks

AI/ML integration

Cloud/hybrid environments

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Data Science / Artificial Intelligence / Information Technology

Tools

OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Honda is seeking an Applications Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership for manufacturing systems, application integration, and digital transformation across development and manufacturing IT environments.

This role drives standards for APIs, event-driven architectures, containerization, security, and AI integration, while mentoring teams and translating enterprise standards into practical templates and reusable solutions.