Principal Architect
Toyota USA2 days ago
Plano, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end reference architecture for application, data, AI/ML, and infrastructure layers across the engineering platform.
- Make binding architectural decisions and author RFCs, ADRs, and design documents.
- Lead technical design reviews and architecture forums across engineering, product, and program management.
- Define and enforce API, infrastructure-as-code, security, observability, and deployment-safety standards.
- Write and review production-quality TypeScript and/or Python code to validate architectural decisions.
- Lead implementation of shared infrastructure modules, API frameworks, data pipeline foundations, and AI/ML integration layers.
- Architect S3-based lakehouse designs, event-driven streaming pipelines, data orchestration, and analytical query patterns.
- Define production integration patterns and guardrails for Bedrock agents, SageMaker endpoints, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows.
- Lead troubleshooting for distributed-system failures involving APIs, data pipelines, infrastructure, and LLM reliability.
- Mentor senior and lead engineers, contribute to technical hiring, and champion documentation and knowledge transfer.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least five years as a hands-on architect or principal-level individual contributor on AWS-based platforms.
- Proven ownership of full-platform architecture decisions in production with accountability for outcomes.
- Deep hands-on expertise with serverless-first AWS architecture, multi-account governance, and infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
- Experience with S3-based lakehouse patterns, Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake, Kinesis, MSK/Kafka, Athena, Redshift, and data governance.
- Experience integrating Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, LLM/ML services, RAG pipelines, vector stores, agentic workflows, and LLM reliability controls.
- Ability to design and govern RESTful and GraphQL APIs, including versioning, federation, OpenAPI, tRPC, or GraphQL Code Generator.
- Experience with frontend architecture using Next.js, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, and monorepo tooling such as Turborepo or Nx.
- Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation, CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, SLAs, dashboards, and incident response.
- Strong written and verbal communication and a record of influencing multiple teams without formal authority.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, financial-services experience, AWS certifications, data mesh experience, responsible AI practices, platform-scale CI/CD, open standards or open-source contributions, and GraphQL federation experience.
Benefits
- Teamwork-focused and flexible work environment with professional growth, development programs, and tuition reimbursement.
- Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount and Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program where applicable.
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for the employee’s family.
- Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with company match and an annual retirement contribution where applicable.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- Referral services for prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and related needs.
- Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA options.
- Relocation assistance where applicable.
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About Toyota USA
Toyota USA (Toyota Motor North America) manufactures and sells Toyota cars, trucks, and SUVs for U.S. customers, and provides financing and mobility services. Founded in 1957 and headquartered in Plano, Texas, it oversees North American operations and plants that build models like the Camry and Tundra, and is expanding battery and EV production in Kentucky and North Carolina.