Associate Director (Java Architect, GCP)

The Team and Impact: This position is accountable for shaping and driving the Architectures used within the development organization as well as defining new and innovative strategic architecture initiatives.The Architect Software Engineer is responsible for strategic technology roadmap maintenance, developing innovative designs for teams to execute, adopting new platform strategies to benefit the organization, and organizing and motivating technical architects and technical leads to build and deliver scalable and sound solutions to meet the current and future product roadmaps.

Department overview

Automotive Insights at S&P Mobility, leverages technology and data science to provide unique insights, forecasts and advisory services spanning every major market and the entire automotive value chainfrom product planning to marketing, sales and the aftermarket.

We provide the most comprehensive data spanning the entire automotive lifecyclepast, present and future. With over 100 years of history, unmatched credentials, and the largest base of customers than any other provider, we are the industry benchmark for clients around the world, helping them make informed decisions to capitalize on opportunity and avoid risk.

Our solutions are used by nearly every major OEM, 90% of the top 100 tier one suppliers, media agencies, governments, insurance companies, and financial stakeholders to provide actionable insights that enable better decisions and better results.

Responsibilities:

• Translates strategy into action via PKRs and departmental strategy.
• Engages with key stakeholders in developing future technology roadmaps and innovation patterns.
• Owns and structures the technical architecture domain and technology life cycle process across the Hold-Assess-Trial-Adopt-Retire stages
• Mentors and grooms next level of technical leadership within the teams.
• Responsible for the creation, monitoring, and improvement of all ISO processes that fall within the domain.
• Interacts with all levels of the sales organizationand business owners.
• Promoting Continuous Delivery and DevOps capabilities
• Collaborates with Information Security teams on all cloud initiatives to continually improve the security posture
• Provides transparency through well-defined metrics, automation, and reporting
• Defines the architectures required to implement large complex cross-functional projects transitioning into cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree inComputer science with at least 9 years of experience as a Java architect and/or Java technical lead and system development implementations.
• At least 2 years of experience as a leader of teams responsible for architecting and designing solutions for teams.
• Strong knowledge of multiple industry software development methodologies, includingAgile,RUPand Waterfall at a minimum
• Expertise in GCP cloud native application development.
• Subject matter expertise with federated authentication/authorization systems - SAML, JWT, OAuth2, etc.
• Extensive knowledge of Agile development methodologies and end-to-end software development lifecycle.
• Expertise in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), API-centric architecture, Object-Oriented Analysis, and Design (OOAD) principles.
• Expertise in creating architectural diagrams and user flows in modelling software like Visio or Lucid Chart.