Strategic Technology Partner Solution Architect – Entertainment

GM • Warren, MI

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Partner Solution Architect is the technical liaison between GM and our strategic technology partners (cloud, platform, device, and ecosystem partners). This partner-facing architecture role translates joint business objectives into scalable, secure, and reusable solutions, ensuring that partner capabilities are effectively integrated into GM’s software-defined vehicle and digital experience ecosystem. You will work side-by-side with Strategic Technology Partner (STP) program managers, Product, Engineering, Security, and Legal to design end-to-end solutions that are technically sound, operationally viable, and aligned to GM’s long-term architectural direction from upstream partner exploration through partner launch.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in solution architecture, systems design, or technical leadership across complex, distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on background with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern integration patterns (APIs, event streaming, messaging).
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering cross-company or partner-integrated solutions (e.g., platform partnerships, OEM/partner integrations, large enterprise customers).
• Solid understanding of security, identity & access management, data privacy/consent, and reliability considerations in large-scale systems.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, concise way to non-technical stakeholders (business development, legal, finance).
• Track record of driving cross-functional alignment and navigating ambiguity to reach pragmatic technical decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in automotive, mobility, consumer technology, or connected products.
• Familiarity with software-defined vehicle architectures, connected services, or large-scale mobile app backends.
• Experience working in or with program/portfolio management functions, translating roadmap-level intent into concrete delivery plans.
• Comfortable facilitating technical workshops, design reviews, and partner working sessions with mixed audiences (architects, engineers, product, legal, security).

Responsibilities

• Partner-facing technical leadership
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for selected strategic technology partners across 2P and 3P partnerships.
• Collaborate with business, product, operations, and engineering teams to develop and execute the product roadmap for partner-enabled experiences.
• Assess partner requirements, roadmaps, and technical capabilities to inform business and operational decisions (e.g., scope, sequencing, SLAs, risk).
• Represent GM’s architectural principles, constraints, and standards in partner technical forums, workshops, and design reviews.
• Work closely and proactively with technology partners and internal teams to deliver results and continuously improve processes for launching new products and services, including candidly surfacing risks and concerns early.
• Solution architecture & design
• Lead end-to-end solution design for partner-integrated capabilities across vehicle, mobile, cloud, and enterprise systems.
• Provide technical expertise to inform integration solutions for complex problems with partners and internal stakeholders, balancing customer experience, technical feasibility, and long-term maintainability.
• Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and data flows (APIs, events, identity/consent, telemetry) that can be reused across teams and partner engagements.
• Ensure solutions meet GM’s requirements for security, privacy, safety, reliability, performance, and compliance.
• Plan for future investments (platform capabilities, tooling, processes) needed to support high-quality and evolving customer experience standards.
• Internal alignment & execution support
• Act as the bridge between business development and engineering, turning partner concepts and agreements into actionable technical designs and roadmaps.
• Facilitate multi-team design discussions (Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Procurement, Operations) to converge on clear solution decisions and trade-offs.
• Provide technical input into business cases and prioritization, highlighting dependencies, complexity, and reuse opportunities.
• Support teams through early delivery phases (e.g., PoCs, pilots, beta programs), then transition ownership to product/platform teams for scale-out and operations.
• Governance, standards, and reuse
• Document solution decisions, patterns, and lessons learned to build a reusable playbook for future partner integrations and inform portfolio-level planning.
• Contribute to and influence architecture guardrails and standards for partner integrations (identity, consent, data residency, telemetry, SLAs, etc.).
• Identify and advocate for platform capabilities that reduce one-off work (e.g., shared integration services, SDKs, tooling, templates).

Benefits

• GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
• Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed