Principal Architect

1 month ago

Atlanta, GA, USA or Austin, TX, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$163k - $272k/yr

Responsibilities

Set platform architectural direction, long-term vision, and guiding principles.
Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of software solutions.
Work with multiple Release Trains to identify dependencies and define integration strategies.
Guide engineers and technical architects in clarifying requirements, allocating subsystem responsibilities, defining interfaces, and establishing delivery automation and testing strategies.
Identify and prioritize architectural runway needed for upcoming business features and capabilities.
Frame technical and architectural alternatives in business terms, including their business and technical implications.
Evaluate the economic impact of design decisions within the retail platform’s financial framework.
Champion architectural solutions and advocate for them across the organization.
Establish critical platform-level non-functional requirements.
Promote strategic development and reuse of shared capabilities across Cox Automotive.

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 8 years, a Ph.D. and 5 years, or 14 years of related experience.
Experience with cloud-native architectures and delivering software and services using cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
At least 8 years of full software development life cycle experience and significant experience delivering mission-critical production applications and services.
Experience building software using API-first approaches, serverless technologies, containers, and distributed architectures.
Strong software engineering foundation and familiarity with OIDC, SAML, SCIM, SQL, NoSQL, Node.js, Python, Java, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
Experience building, integrating, and testing complex software products composed of multiple workloads and teams.
Exemplary consulting skills and a track record as a practicing architect.
At least 4 years of experience as a solution or technical architect.
Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, with the ability to communicate architectural concepts across organizational levels.
Ability to work effectively with teams throughout the organization.

Hybrid work arrangement with the ability to work remotely part of the week.
Flexible paid vacation, seven paid holidays, and up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually.
Additional paid leave may include bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer, military, and parental leave.
Potential benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation, wellness days, and/or PTO.
Employment requires clearing a pre-employment drug test; marijuana is not currently included in testing for this position.

1,001-5,000 employees