Information Technology and Services
Job DescriptionLead Software Architect to provide technical guidance and leadership in developing future-facing automated driving services. The Automated Driving team develops massive real-time event processing, data fusion and “Big Data” analytical systems to be deployed in the computing cloud environment and, from there, accessible to a variety of automotive applications. In this role, the successful candidate will define adaptable and maintainable software architectures and design and support all other stages of the software development lifecycle within in an Agile development environment. Other types of responsibilities include: contributing to product roadmaps, evaluating new technological solutions and designs in the marketplace, and establishing and maintaining high level software documentation. This is an exciting and influential role within the architecture team, as the company plans to provide differentiated automated driving experiences through our software services. The successful candidate will work with other architects, developers and software service operations specialists to establish and maintain the technical vision and technology introduction.
QualificationsRequired Qualifications
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Automotive or Electrical Engineering. Masters Degree or PhD preferred.
• 10 years relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of focus as Senior Software Architect in automotive applications software domain or equivalent work experience.
• Skilled in translating complex technical concepts into high-level designs for development teams and also into executive briefs for Sr. Leadership.
• Experienced in defining and implementing technical solutions aligned with customer expectations, business priorities and constraints.
• Excellent technical communications and software modeling skills combined with strategic thinking and analytical capability, including addressing non-functional requirements.
• Strong understanding and hands on experience in Core Java, JEE, Spring
• Understanding Big Data analytical systems (Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra...) Experience in architecting and deploying large mission critical systems in cloud environments (AWS, Google,...).
Highly Desired Qualifications:
• Strong foundational knowledge and experience with network programming and message exchange standards and systems (JMS, RabbitMQ, …)
• Familiarity with continuous integration environments (e.g. Jenkins, Anthill Pro, etc.).
• Familiarity with SQL (Oracle,..) and NoSQL (Mongo, CouchDB,..) development.
• Understanding of distributed real-time message processing systems (Storm, Spark,..)
• Understanding of enterprise data integration platforms (Apache Camel, Talend, Pentaho,..)
• Open source software project contributor.
Additional InformationAdam Abas - Senior Technical Recruiter
Hi-Tech Solutions, Inc. (HTS)
2 Mid America Plaza Suite 630, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
W: 630-473-6465
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