(AME4854) Architect L2

POSITION IS LOCATED IN TORRANCE, CA

Responsibilities:

• Drive business and IT alignment to design and leverage reusable cloud architecture solutions.
• Collaborate with IT management to define and develop technology strategy, technology standards, capabilities, roadmaps, and practices.
• Act as a technical lead/expert addressing requirements/problems relating to systems storage, compute, integration, compatibility, and multiple platform integration with P/SaaS solutions using WAF principles and industry best practices.
• Interact and consult with appropriate business analysts, project managers, infrastructure engineers and developers to understand application/project requirements and define architectural solutions to meet those requirements.
• Work with the enterprise solutions stakeholders on Architecture Review and Approval processes.
• Work with application delivery teams in the development of services, reusable patterns, components, standards, and frameworks required to support Honda’s business strategy.
• Produce architecture diagrams, workflows and models using Visio, Draw.io, and other tools.
• Evaluate technology solutions, services, and vendor offerings through RFP/Q/I & SOW process
• Ensure that projects follow the prescribed development life cycle and meets quality standards.
• Assist with analyzing and recommending software acquisitions and alternative solutions/methodologies/strategies and tools.
• Keep current with trends and technological innovations in the automotive industry and make appropriate development recommendations.
• Identify risks associated with architecture design, delivery, component, or application implementation.

What will this person be working on:

• Understand data confidentiality, security, compliance needs and apply data protection rules including data sharing, filtering, and fencing at storage, compute, and consumption layers.
• Design data protection solutions at database, table, column level and APIs based on enterprise standard data security, privacy, architecture principles and reference architectures.
• Design the structure and layout of data systems, including databases, warehouses, and lakes
• Select and implement database management systems that meet the organization’s needs by defining data schemas, optimizing data storage, and establishing data access controls and security measures
• Deliver exceptional business value by enhancing data pipeline performance, ensuring timely orchestration, and upholding data governance.
• Translates high-level business requirements into data models and appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards
• Manages senior business stakeholders to secure strong engagement and ensures that the delivery of the project aligns with longer-term strategic roadmaps
• Leads and participates in the peer review and quality assurance of project architectural artifacts
• Defines and manages standards, guidelines, and processes to ensure data quality
• Works with IT teams, business analysts, and data analytics teams to understand data consumers’ needs and develop solutions
• Evaluates and recommends emerging technologies for data management, storage, and analytics

Required Skills:

• BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 15 years of experience designing or configuring complex enterprise grade cloud & big data systems and/or applications.
• 10 years Relational & No-SQL Database architecture and design.
• Demonstrates a strong technical aptitude of multi‐tier and cross‐platform architectures across the enterprise.
• In‐depth knowledge of design requirements.
• Strong ability to define systems and integration models.
• Strong ability to act as a technical expert addressing problems relating to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platform integration.
• Strong understanding in the information technology landscape ‐ stretching from infrastructure, network, client, server, emerging technology standards and trends.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of software engineering, software development, solution architecture and implementation of medium to large scale systems across multiple platforms.

The hiring range for this position is $74.00 to $81.00 per hour, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay rate actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.