layiq

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worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

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Principal Architect at Cox Automotive | LAYIQ

Key Responsibilities

Drive solution design from discovery through delivery — shaping epics, validating assumptions, surfacing risks early, and aligning across teams to target architecture
Partner with engineering, product, and agile leaders to sequence and prioritize architectural investments, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health
Champion adoption of Cox Automotive’s Common tenancy and user management platforms and AWS-native patterns within the value stream
Identify, evaluate, and champion generative AI capabilities for new products and features, aligning implementations with Retail Agentic Platform standards and establishing reusable architecture practices.
Produce and maintain architectural artifacts — roadmaps, decision records, solution diagrams, integration models — that give teams clear, actionable direction
Assess emerging AI technologies and coordinate with governance partners to ensure ethical, regulatory, security, and enterprise standards are addressed.
Promote reusable patterns and frameworks to accelerate Product development and AI adoption.
Translate business objectives and constraints into practical solution options, trade-offs, and technical recommendations for delivery teams.
Build engineering teams’ AI capabilities through hands-on mentoring, design reviews, and guidance on applying approved patterns.
Lead proofs of concept and reference implementations that validate architectural assumptions, reduce delivery risk, and establish reusable implementation patterns.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years' experience; or 20 years' experience in a related field.
Proven ability to align diverse stakeholders around technical direction, navigate ambiguity, and drive consensus across engineering, product, and business teams.
Highly analytical and capable of diving technically deep to rapidly deliver proof-of-concepts and perform experimentation.
Breadth of architectural knowledge spanning application, integration, and platform domains, with the ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
Extensive technical experience in application architecture and API delivery at scale.
Experience developing APIs at scale using GraphQL and/or REST.
Experience in full development life cycle with significant experience delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.
Strong familiarity with architecting for and delivering solutions in a public cloud environment (AWS preferred).
Hands-on experience with AI technologies and concepts (LLMs, autonomous agents, vector databases, model selection, agent-based architecture, data pipeline, AI-assisted PDLC, etc.)
Experience working within DevOps cultures, with a focus on process improvement, automation, and continuous delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven ability to identify and select appropriate application and data systems for varied workloads — integrations, processing, APIs, and operational reporting.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and async messaging patterns at consumer scale.
Experience with API governance, API contract management, and establishing standards across engineering teams.
Demonstrated ability to drive platform thinking — identifying reuse opportunities, reducing duplication, and shaping shared capabilities across delivery streams.
Track record of enabling teams through influence without authority — mentoring engineers, shaping technical direction, and elevating architectural maturity across an organization.
Drug Testing
To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

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