Cox Communications

Sr Lead Architect

Cox Communications$148K — $247K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years of experience, or equivalent education and experience
  • 5+ years of structured design and architecture implementation in corporate environments
  • 8+ years of full development life cycle experience in production architecture services
  • Strong knowledge of AWS Services with an emphasis on Serverless patterns
  • 5+ years of experience in API design patterns, including RESTful and GraphQL
  • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills for diverse organizational levels
  • Software development background in modern server-side computing stacks

Responsibilities

  • Assist in developing frameworks, standards, and policies for technology decisions
  • Facilitate technical design reviews for architectural adherence
  • Identify and resolve technology infrastructure issues
  • Connect local teams with broader enterprise capabilities
  • Mentor engineers on business knowledge and career guidance
  • Develop logical and technical architecture for projects
  • Evaluate and produce design deliverables for flexible and secure products

Benefits

  • Flexible vacation policy allowing employees to take as needed
  • Seven paid holidays throughout the year
  • Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time for personal or family well-being
  • Additional paid time off for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteering, military leave, and parental leave
Full Job Description

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Sr Lead Architect

Management Level

Sr Manager - Non People Leader

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

No

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $148,500.00 - $247,500.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

This role will joins the Websites Value Stream architecture team, with a heavy focus on mission critical applications for the Dealer.com Website Platform. You will collaborate with architects, engineering, product, and agile leaders to establish and scale Dealer.com website capabilities with a common technological and architectural vision delivered in the AWS cloud. You will drive the definition of architectural styles and patterns necessary to deliver the functional and non-functional requirements, validate solutions, identify risks and dependencies, and evaluate alternatives through hands-on research, discovery, and prototyping. You will support solution development through providing, communicating, and evolving the greater technological and architectural view of the solution. You will frame solution alternatives in both technology and business terms, ensuring that product and business decisions are not made in isolation of their technical implications, and vice versa.

Responsibilities

Architecture Vision and Direction

  • Assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles, and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize reuse of technology.

  • Facilitates technical design reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.

  • Assists in the identification, analysis, and resolution of technology infrastructure problems.

  • Connects local teams with broader enterprise capabilities, driving integration and standardization as appropriate.

  • Mentors engineers on business knowledge, technology, and career guidance.

  • Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and failing forward, providing opportunities for engineers to learn from each other's successes and challenges.

Technical Architecture Development

  • Develops the logical and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives and collaborates with project teams to realize them.

  • Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology, and interoperability requirements and produces high-level design deliverables that enable development teams to create products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.

  • Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery teams and other stakeholders.

Technology Monitoring & Evaluation

  • Evaluates emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies to define a future vision roadmap for optimal application of technology to meet business needs.

  • Recommends improvements to technology and processes that increase team effectiveness.

  • Creates proof of concepts to determine the viability of new or different technologies.

  • Oversees and facilitates the evaluation and selection of hardware and software technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 6years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years’ experience in a related field; or 12 years’ experience in a related field

  • 5+ years of experience in the implementation of structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment.

  • 8+ years of experience in full development life cycle and significant experience in delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.

  • Requires strong knowledge AWS Services and offerings with a focus on Serverless patterns

  • 5+ years of expereince in API design patterns including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, messaging-based APIs and other architectural integration patterns.

  • Excellent verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels

  • Software development background in modern server-side computing stacks

  • A solid understanding of the solutions architecture of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems integration and cloud computing platforms is strongly desired

Preferred Qualification

  • Software development background in modern browser environments with React based single page app patterns preferred

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.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

About Cox Communications

Cox Communications is a telecommunications company that provides cable television, internet, and phone services to residential and business customers. The company operates in 18 states and has over 6 million customers. Cox Communications is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, a privately held company that also owns newspapers, television stations, and radio stations. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.
Learn more about Cox Communications
Size
20,000 employees
Industry
Net Income
$2 billion
5 Year Trend
+10%
Revenue
$12 billion
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