Senior Principal Solution Architect - (Automotive) (m/f/x)

Key Skills

Apache Airflow, Apache Flink, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, AWS, Azure, Big Data Technology, C Programming, C++, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java Programming, o9 Solutions, Python Programming, REDIS, Rust, Scala Programming, SPARK Programming

Job Description

What's the role?

About the team: 

HERE Platform Solutions Architecture team is embedded inside a horizontal architecture group which has the responsibility of defining the target architecture of platform products at HERE. Given its unique horizontal position in the organization, the architecture group has a deep visibility and influence over how various software products are designed, implemented and maintained at HERE. While individual architects have deep understanding of specific products and domains, the real strength of architecture team comes from its culture of cross collaboration and knowledge sharing within the group. Solution architecture team has an additional function of bringing customer-centricity to the group. The team works with strategic HERE customers spread across the world to build solutions for their usecases by leveraging HERE location platform. In addition to creating significant customer value, the team brings back rich insights and experience from the field which then helps further shaping of product architecture and portfolio. The results produced by this team have direct impact on customer success and hence also on HERE’s competitiveness and success. Given the criticality of work done in Solution Architecture group, it is quite common for the team to be in customer and management spotlight while at the same time engaging with engineers on finer technical details.

The team consists of around 7 architects with varying level of experience and diverse backgrounds, but a like-minded attitude towards continuous learning, knowledge sharing and collective success. The team members share a common desire to apply their expertise to create actual customer value. A common trait in the team is their ability to look wide across multiple systems and also go deep into specific components when required. We are looking to reinforce our Solution Architecture team to manage an increasing line-up of our customers. 

About the role:

As a Senior Principal Architect in HERE Architecture team, you will be responsible for :

• designing robust architectures that realize strategic customer usecases. These architecture deliveries have material impact on customer success and HERE's business.
• You will be required to engage with relevant internal and external stakeholders to build a detailed understanding of the problem, derive meaningful insights out of it, design architecture to solve the problem and articulate the solution to variety of stakeholders ranging from engineering to product to sales to customers.
• You will also be required to demonstrate leadership skills in guiding/mentoring engineering teams to build implementations that are accurately aligned with the architecture. The architecture would need to address aspects like performance, scalability, security/privacy and foul tolerance in the design.
• You will have the freedom to define the process around how the architecture would involve so as to support HERE business. 
• A key aspect of this role will be analyzing customer requirements coming through various channels like RfQ, building an in-depth understanding of the customer needs, engaging with different technical and non-technical stakeholders to build a comprehensive solution architecture and actively supporting the project lifecycle from winning the project nomination to a closure through solution delivery.

Who are you?

• You have a deep prior experience in software engineering, building customer-facing products/systems and stakeholder management.
• You are passionate about helping your customers succeed by enabling them to build a solution that creates maximum value.
• You have a customer-centric, solution-oriented and actionable approach to solving business problems.
• A natural approach to build a robust software architecture while taking feedback from customers, PoCs, market and peer groups is vital to execute on responsibilities in this role.
• You also have strong hands-on experience in at least one or more of popular programming languages like Java, Rust, Go, Scala, Python, C/C++ etc.
• A detailed experience in one or more of distributed computing and big data frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Hadoop, Kafka, Redis, Airflow etc. is required.
• Detailed knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP is an advantage.
• An experience in automotive domain is also an advantage.

What we offer:

• A great work-life balance
• Hybrid model of work
• Challenging problems to solve
• Collaborative and encouraging colleagues
• Opportunities to learn, grow and develop: company hackathons, technical talks, and trainings
• Regular feedbacks
• 30 paid vacation days
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive salary plus bonus
• BVG company ticket
• German language course
• Access to Insight Timer app for sessions on meditation, yoga, etc.
• Diverse team of fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide.
• Brown bag talks, team events, BBQ on the rooftop and more!