Sr Lead Architect

In this role you join the Websites Value Stream architecture team to shape mission-critical website capabilities in the AWS cloud. You will partner with architects, engineering, product, and agile leaders to drive a common architectural vision and scalable solutions. You'll evaluate options, frame technology and business trade-offs, and prototype to prove feasibility. You influence product decisions with a strong architectural perspective and foster knowledge sharing across teams. This is a chance to shape high-impact web platforms for drivers and dealers at scale.

• paid vacation
• seven paid holidays
• paid wellness up to 160 hours
• bereavement leave
• voting time off
• jury duty leave

• Develops and guides architectural vision, standards, and reuse across the organization
• Leads technical design reviews ensuring consistency with architecture standards
• Identifies and resolves technology infrastructure problems; connects local teams with enterprise capabilities
• Mentors engineers on business knowledge, technology, and career guidance
• Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and learning from experimentation
• Develops logical/technical architectures for initiatives and collaborates with project teams
• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, and interoperability requirements for scalable products
• Communicates architectures and technologies to delivery teams and stakeholders
• Evaluates emerging technologies and creates proofs of concept to test viability
• Oversees evaluation and selection of hardware and software technologies

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years' experience; alternative combos acceptable (master's 6 years, PhD 3 years, or 12 years total)
• 5+ years implementing structured design and architecture processes in corporate environments
• 8+ years delivering applications and architecture services in production environments
• Strong knowledge of AWS Services with Serverless patterns
• 5+ years in API design (REST, GraphQL, messaging-based APIs) and integration patterns
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for multiple organizational levels
• Software development background in modern server-side stacks
• Solid understanding of consumer-scale web solutions, distributed systems, and cloud computing

• strong communication
• facilitation
• mentoring
• AWS Serverless
• RESTful APIs
• GraphQL