Senior Cloud Architect & Tech Lead — AWS

Toyota North America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

401(k) with company match

Relocation assistance

Paid holidays

Job summary

Toyota North America is seeking a highly motivated Senior Engineering Lead to join the TFS Banking and Commercial Lending team in Plano, TX. You will collaborate with product owners and technical teams to design end-to-end architecture for our financial services portfolio.

You will lead design discussions around APIs, databases, caching, messaging, and cloud-native AWS solutions, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring secure, scalable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering/architecture experience.
• Experience with AWS, microservices, and cloud-native designs.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design discussions around APIs, databases, caching, messaging, resilience, and observability.
• Collaborate with product owners and technical teams to design end-to-end architecture for applications across our financial services portfolio.
• Analyze trade-offs and propose scalable, secure solutions.
• Evaluate new software patterns, tools, and frameworks through PoCs.
• Lead the engineering efforts for AWS solutions, staying current with latest advancements in related technologies.
• Identify opportunities, develop strategies, design architecture, and establish best practices to optimize cloud-based data lake and processing frameworks.
• Design cloud-native applications using AWS services and modern architecture practices, including declarative coding and serverless workflows.
• Incorporate security and DevSecOps principles into application architecture, ensuring robust protection and compliance.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and best practices, ensuring design decisions and architecture artifacts are aligned, reusable, and shared for knowledge transfer.
• Provide mentoring to junior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous learning.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with organizational vision and business priorities.

Skills

Spring Boot

Java

Python

JavaScript

CI/CD

DevOps

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

EKS/ECS

Containers

Event-driven

Streaming architectures

Job description

Toyota North America is seeking a highly motivated Senior Engineering Lead to join the TFS Banking and Commercial Lending team in Plano, TX. You will collaborate with product owners and technical teams to design end-to-end architecture for our financial services portfolio.

You will lead design discussions around APIs, databases, caching, messaging, and cloud-native AWS solutions, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring secure, scalable outcomes.