Software Engineering Lead

Toyota • Plano, TX

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About The Position

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead for its Banking and Commercial Lending team. Based in Plano, Texas, this role collaborates with product owners and technical teams to design end-to-end architecture for applications across the financial services portfolio. The lead evaluates trade-offs and proposes scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions aligned with business goals, while guiding engineering work for AWS-based systems and cloud-native applications.

The role focuses on architecture for cloud-based data lakes and processing frameworks that support real-time and near-real-time data ingestion, processing, monitoring, and reporting. It also incorporates security and DevSecOps principles, maintains architectural documentation and best practices, and mentors junior engineers. The lead partners with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with organizational vision and business priorities. Off-hours incident response may be needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, including 3+ years in system or application design.
• Strong foundation in Spring Boot, Java, Python, and/or JavaScript.
• Proven experience designing and deploying large-scale, multi-region cloud-native solutions, preferably on AWS.
• Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, containers such as EKS/ECS, and related services.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern software development methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical decisions.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and cross-functional projects.
• Adaptability, alignment with the mission, and ability to thrive in dynamic environments, embrace collaboration, and support off-hours incident response when needed.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification (strongly preferred).
• Experience conducting architecture reviews, presenting design proposals, and delivering end-to-end hands-on proof-of-concepts.
• Experience with finance-domain business process automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead design discussions involving system components such as APIs, databases, caching layers, messaging, resilience, and observability.
• Collaborate with product owners and technical teams to design end-to-end application architecture across the financial services portfolio.
• Analyze trade-offs and propose scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions tailored to business goals.
• Evaluate and introduce software patterns, tools, and frameworks through proof-of-concepts.
• Lead engineering efforts for AWS solutions and stay current with related technologies.
• Identify opportunities, develop strategies, design architecture, and establish best practices for cloud-based data lakes and processing frameworks supporting real-time and near-real-time data ingestion, processing, monitoring, and reporting.
• Design cloud-native applications using AWS services and modern architecture practices, including declarative coding, serverless workflows, and computing.
• Incorporate security and DevSecOps principles into application architecture to ensure protection and compliance.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and best practices, and ensure architecture artifacts are aligned, reusable, and shared for knowledge transfer.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster innovation, excellence, and continuous learning.
• Work with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with organizational vision and business priorities.

Benefits

• Professional growth and development programs.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount.
• Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if 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, whether or not the employee contributes (if applicable).
• Paid holidays and paid time off.
• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and more.
• Tax-advantaged accounts, including Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA.
• Relocation assistance (if applicable).
• Teamwork-, flexibility-, and respect-oriented work environment.

What This Job Offers

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