IT Application Solution Architect - Captive Finance

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. • Torrance, CA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The IT Solution Architect – CASS Applications provides senior technical leadership for the design, development, integration, enhancement, and operational support of Customer Accounting Service System (CASS) applications supporting American Honda Finance Corp (AHFC) and Honda Canada Finance, Inc. (HCFI). The role leads assigned technical workstreams, develops solution designs and architecture artifacts, conducts design and code reviews, coordinates technical activities across internal and managed-service resources, and supports production stability, release readiness, and continuous improvement.

Working under the direction of the Team Manager and in partnership with business, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data, Cloud, and vendor teams, the architect recommends secure, scalable, reliable, supportable, and cost-effective solutions aligned with approved business priorities and enterprise technology standards. The position provides technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring, but has no formal people-management, budget-approval, contract-approval, or staffing-decision authority.

This is an onsite position. One remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval. The position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship or relocation assistance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related STEM field.
• At least 5 to 7 years of overall IT enterprise application experience, including 5 or more years in solution/application architecture, technical leadership, or software development leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical workstreams and coordinate delivery across internal teams, contingent resources, and managed-service providers.
• Strong experience designing enterprise solutions, developing architecture artifacts, conducting design and code reviews, and applying security, scalability, availability, performance, resilience, and disaster-recovery principles.
• Demonstrable working knowledge of .NET, SQL, Salesforce, ETL, IBM MQ, IBM App Connect Enterprise, APIs, cloud services, and integration platforms.
• Experience with application modernization, production support, incident and problem management, root-cause analysis, release management, monitoring, and technical-debt remediation.
• Strong communication, risk-management, coaching, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to guide technical decisions and provide objective feedback to management.
• Able to work onsite; one remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval.
• Not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in captive finance, preferably in the automotive sector; banking or finance sector experience is also an asset.
• Good understanding of SOX and other compliance guidelines related to the finance sector.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for assigned CASS application projects, enhancements, integrations, and production-support initiatives.
• Analyze business and technical requirements, recommend solution approaches, identify risks and dependencies, and coordinate implementation with internal teams, managed-service providers, and technology partners.
• Ensure recommended solutions align with approved architecture, security, data, infrastructure, and operational standards.
• Build working relationships and communicate technical options, risks, dependencies, constraints, and recommendations to business partners and cross-functional technology teams.
• Provide technical direction, coaching, mentoring, design guidance, and knowledge transfer to associates, contingent workers, and managed-service resources.
• Coordinate technical assignments and support consistent engineering practices, documentation, code quality, solution quality, and knowledge retention.
• Provide objective technical input to the Team Manager regarding resource capabilities, delivery risks, and development needs.
• Lead assigned technical workstreams and support delivery within approved scope, schedule, quality, architecture, security, and operational-readiness requirements.
• Identify technical issues, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints; escalate them to the Project Manager and Team Manager with recommended actions.
• Provide technical oversight for application stability, performance, supportability, and recoverability.
• Support incident and problem management, root-cause analysis, release readiness, disaster-recovery activities, technical-debt remediation, and continuous service improvement.
• Monitor technical delivery by managed-service resources and escalate performance, quality, capacity, and support concerns to the Team Manager.
• Design technical solutions and prepare and maintain architecture artifacts, including context, integration, and data-flow diagrams, deployment models, interface specifications, and architecture decision records.
• Conduct design and code reviews and recommend improvements to security, scalability, availability, maintainability, performance, and supportability.
• Lead architecture and engineering discussions for assigned technical workstreams and coordinate with Enterprise Architecture and review boards to obtain required approvals.
• Contribute technical input to application roadmaps and modernization plans developed under the Team Manager’s direction.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary, based on factors including geographic location and work experience.
• Paid overtime.
• Regional bonus when applicable.
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription benefit plans.
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and shutdown.
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability.
• 401(k) plan with company match and additional contribution.
• Advancement opportunities and career mobility.
• Education reimbursement for continued learning.
• Training and development programs.
• Tuition assistance and student loan repayment.
• Lifestyle account.
• Childcare reimbursement account.
• Elder care support.
• Wellbeing program.
• Community service and engagement programs.
• Product programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior