Principal Architect
Cox AutomotiveResponsibilities
- Set the platform architectural direction, long-term vision, and guiding principles.
- Participate in solution planning, definition, high-level design, dependency identification, and integration strategy across multiple Release Trains.
- 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.
- Evaluate architectural alternatives in business and technical terms, including their economic impact.
- Champion architectural solutions and advocate for them across the organization.
- Establish critical platform-level non-functional requirements.
- Promote the strategic development and reuse of shared capabilities across Cox Automotive.
Requirements
- 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 lifecycle experience and significant experience delivering mission-critical production applications and services.
- Experience building software with an API-first approach using serverless technologies, containers, and distributed architectures.
- Strong software engineering foundation and familiarity with OIDC, SAML, SCIM, SQL, NoSQL, Node.js, Python, Java, React, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building, integrating, and testing complex software products composed of multiple workloads and teams.
- Exemplary consulting, communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-interaction skills, with experience applying them as a practicing architect.
- At least 4 years of experience as a solution or technical architect.
- Deep automotive experience is sought.
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About Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider. Fueled by the largest breadth of first- and third-party data fed by 2.3 billion online interactions a year, Cox Automotive tailors leading solutions for car shoppers, auto manufacturers, dealers, lenders and fleets. The company has 29,000+ employees on four continents and a portfolio of industry-leading brands that include Autotrader®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, vAuto®, Dealertrack®, NextGear Capital™, CentralDispatch® and Cox Fleet®. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately owned, Atlanta-based company with $23 billion in annual revenue. Cox Automotive has been included on Glassdoor’s Best Companies in Tech & AI 2026 and Best Place to Work in 2026 lists.