Sr Lead Solution Architect

Cox Automotive hiring for Sr Lead Solution Architect jobs in Orange, CA, US

Cox Automotive Inc. is transforming the way the world buys, sells, and owns cars. We build industry-leading digital marketing, software, financial, wholesale, and e-commerce solutions for consumers, dealers, manufacturers, and the overall automotive ecosystem worldwide.

About the Job

The Sr Lead Solution Architect is responsible for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet non-functional (e.g., performance, security, reliability, and operations) requirements in support of a given initiative. The Sr Lead Solution Architect establishes architectural vision and direction, designs technical solutions, and monitors and evaluates emerging technologies.

The main area of responsibility will cover applications, technology, and data for our consumer marketing capabilities. The Sr Lead Solution Architect deeply understands key concepts in advertising, sales, and marketing domains to ensure solution optimizations in the tooling, integrations, and data insights. This role will partner closely with leaders in the CAI Marketing organization to champion their technology needs and align vendor decisions with the broader organization. Additionally, this role will serve as a conduit between enterprise capabilities and the marketing technology landscape, conceptualizing how integrations between the areas can enhance each other.

Responsibilities

Architecture Vision and Direction

• Assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles, and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize reuse of technology.
• Facilitates technical design reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.
• Assists in the identification, analysis, and resolution of technology infrastructure problems.
• Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and failing forward, providing opportunities for team members to learn from each other's successes and challenges.
• Understands the broader CAI Capability landscape, using knowledge of the detailed scope of existing capabilities to design solutions that plug into the ecosystem.

Technical Architecture Development

• Develops the logical and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives and collaborates with project teams to realize them.
• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology, and interoperability requirements and produces high level design deliverables that enable development teams to produce products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.
• Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery team and other stakeholders.

Technology Monitoring & Evaluation

• Evaluates emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies to define a future vision roadmap for optimal applications of technology to meet business needs.
• Recommends improvements to technology and processes that increase the effectiveness of the team.
• Creates proof of concepts to determine the viability of new or different technologies.

• Oversees and facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology.

Qualifications

• Experience with consumer marketing solutions, such as consumer data, marketing automation, consent management, web / mobile analytics, and consumer relationship management (Google Marketing Platform preferred)
• 10+ years of professional experience in solution architecture, IT software management, business analysis, or similar roles.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Strong background in cloud computing (AWS, GCP).
• Significant experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience with mission critical business platforms that power a variety of products and capabilities strongly desired.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science degree or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education

USD 129,100.00 - 215,100.00 per year

Compensation:

Compensation includes a base salary of $129,100.00 - $215,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Benefits:

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.

About Cox Automotive

At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!

About Cox

Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!

Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page .

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

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