26 Oct
Release Train Data Architect
Indiana, Carmel , 46032 Carmel USA

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Primary Location: 11799 N College Ave, Carmel, IN, USA

Division: Cox Automotive

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Travel: No

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Requisition Number: 202000503 Job Summary:We know you've got choices as an experienced Architect, so why work for Cox Automotive? Besides being a privately held company that's been in business over 100 years, Cox Automotive is a respected industry leader.The Release Train Data Architect provides technical leadership and guidance to a value-oriented release train comprised of multiple delivery teams. As a part of the Release Train Leadership Team, the Release Train Architect works with engineering, product, and business leaders to create and promote the release train's current architectural direction and future vision. Key responsibilities include insuring technical alignment, architectural health and vision across the release train's agile delivery teams. The Architecture Team accomplishes our goals by:
  • Defining and socializing future state vision
  • Understanding technical and business dependencies
  • Understanding and communicating broader architectural context
  • Promoting leading practices to drive architectural health and high quality
  • Defining, assessing, and communicating technical debt and risk
  • Guiding architectural decisions
  • Analyzing design and technology alternatives with respect to business benefits
  • Applying emerging technology to business opportunities
  • Promoting a culture of mentoring, collaboration and sharing
Successful Release Train Architects will be able to communicate effectively on both technical and business fronts. Validating technology assumptions and quantifying value, effort, risk and technical feasibility in terms of time and money is a critical skill for this role. Release Train Architects must understand the technology landscape of their domain and be able to collaborate with their peers to promote standards, patterns and re-usability to enable the development of best in class solutions. Architecture has an important role in our business. We strive to enable a sustainable, continuous, accelerating flow of exceptional solutions to market. Skills and Experience:
  • Demonstrating a strong ability to collaborate with others. Working in concert with engineering, product and business leaders. Resolve design pattern conflicts between teams when necessary to insure architectural alignment
  • Forming educated opinions about the evolution of our architecture practice. Illustrate and evangelize the technical and product vision through creating architectural artifacts such as roadmaps, diagrams, leading practices documents, maturity models and technical analysis presentations.
  • Work with architecture and engineering team members to author guiding principles to better inform teams' design decisions.
  • Understand technical risks and technical debt. Working transparently to bring visibility to these items is critical, as is developing appropriate mitigation strategies.
  • Continuous learning: staying current with technology that is relevant to our problem/solution space.
  • Evaluating current and future worksteams for opportunities to leverage preferred technology patterns and solutions (such as Amazon Web Services) in reusable patterns. Release Train Architects should always be thinking about new ways to employ AWS to create scalable, cost effective and inventive solutions.
  • Share what our teams are learning and doing! Cox Automotive wins when we leverage our collective learnings and we're intentional about sharing great work.
Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of experience in full development life cycle and significant experience in delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.
  • 2+ years leadership experience
  • 2+ years experience leading data integration initiatives with partners and providers.
  • 2+ years' experience of Data Lake implementation.
  • 3+ years experience working with AWS and/or Azure data related technologies
  • Understanding of database and analytical technologies in the industry including MPP and NoSQL databases, Data Warehouse design, BI reporting and Dashboard development.
  • Experience developing software code in one or more programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Python, etc).
  • Hands on experience leading enterprise data warehousing and analytics projects.
  • Prior experience in the implementation of design and architecture processes in an Enterprise Agile Environment.
  • Prior experience in IT architecture or team development lead roles in large-scale, complex IT environments.
  • Extensive experience working in automation first environments promotions Continuous Integrating/Continuous Delivery and infrastructure as code is a definite plus.
  • A solid understanding of the solutions architecture of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems integration and cloud computing platforms is strongly desired.
  • Experience with AWS ecosystem and architectural patterns is strongly desired.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, or related field OR equivalent work experience.
Who We Are

About Cox Automotive There's nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach. We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

About Cox We are the Cox family of businesses. We've been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us. Our primary divisions - Cox Communications and Cox Automotive - are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators. We're also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation. We're looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you'll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com. 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. Statement to ALL Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations: Cox accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Cox employees, Cox hiring manager, or send to any Cox facility. Cox is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.

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