Sr Lead Architect

Cox Enterprises • Atlanta, GA

5d • $148,500 - $247,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role will joins the Websites Value Stream architecture team, with a heavy focus on mission critical applications for the Dealer.com Website Platform. You will collaborate with architects, engineering, product, and agile leaders to establish and scale Dealer.com website capabilities with a common technological and architectural vision delivered in the AWS cloud. You will drive the definition of architectural styles and patterns necessary to deliver the functional and non-functional requirements, validate solutions, identify risks and dependencies, and evaluate alternatives through hands-on research, discovery, and prototyping. You will support solution development through providing, communicating, and evolving the greater technological and architectural view of the solution. You will frame solution alternatives in both technology and business terms, ensuring that product and business decisions are not made in isolation of their technical implications, and vice versa.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 6years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years’ experience in a related field; or 12 years’ experience in a related field
• 5+ years of experience in the implementation of structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment.
• 8+ years of experience in full development life cycle and significant experience in delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.
• Requires strong knowledge AWS Services and offerings with a focus on Serverless patterns
• 5+ years of expereince in API design patterns including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, messaging-based APIs and other architectural integration patterns.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels
• Software development background in modern server-side computing stacks
• A solid understanding of the solutions architecture of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems integration and cloud computing platforms is strongly desired

Nice To Haves

• Software development background in modern browser environments with React based single page app patterns preferred

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Connects local teams with broader enterprise capabilities, driving integration and standardization as appropriate.
• Mentors engineers on business knowledge, technology, and career guidance.
• Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and failing forward, providing opportunities for engineers to learn from each other's successes and challenges.
• 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 create products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.
• Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery teams and other stakeholders.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies to define a future vision roadmap for optimal application of technology to meet business needs.
• Recommends improvements to technology and processes that increase team effectiveness.
• Creates proof of concepts to determine the viability of new or different technologies.
• Oversees and facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technologies.

Benefits

• health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• retirement planning (401(k))
• paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
• flexible vacation with pay
• seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually

What This Job Offers

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