Connected Vehicle Architect

SUMMARY

Senior technologist position that supports Subaru of America's (SOA's) business objectives by identifying new technologies, developing the telematics technology strategy, and mentoring the Connected Vehicle (CV) Information Technology (IT) teams; this includes identifying, defining, and championing the standards, patterns, and common practices required to ensure our engineering ecosystem operates with the discipline and predictability of a modern technology organization.

Works across all engineering teams to establish and maintain consistency of processes, tools, architectural approaches, and quality expectations while preventing siloed delivery and ensuring features and services are cohesive, reusable, and aligned to a shared strategy.

By serving as an architect and leader, ensures that engineering teams build solutions that are aligned, interoperable, secure, and maintainable.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES


* Connected Vehicle (CV) Technology Strategy Development:
+ Owns and drives discussion across engineering and business teams to create an actionable roadmap that accelerates digital transformation.


* Technology Innovation:
+ Researches, tests, and evangelizes technologies that will provide Subaru with a competitive advantage in the automotive industry; findings and recommendations to include cost versus business benefit models and implementation roadmaps.
+ Determines selective additions and effective reuse of technology along with elimination of systems and environments no longer delivering value.


* Architecture Design and Governance:
+ Develops and governs technology architecture standards, reference patterns, and decision frameworks that ensure systems and services meet all availability, performance, and security objectives, which includes understanding the current state of the technology footprint, business strategic goals, and market challenges.


* Drive Standards, Common Practices, and Cross‑Engineering Consistency:
+ Identifies, defines, and champions the standards, patterns, and common practices required to ensure our engineering ecosystem operates with the discipline and predictability of a modern technology organization.
+ Works with all engineering teams to establish and maintain consistency in processes, tools, architectural approaches, and quality expectations.


* Coach and Lead:
+ Ensures smooth change management and adoption of new technologies and techniques via structured training sessions and individual coaching as needed.


* Cultivate Vendor Partnerships:
+ Develops and maintains relationships with critical vendor partners.
+ Understands and communicates vendor roadmaps and strategic goals with the objective of taking advantage of potential wins while avoiding challenges.


* Cultivate Internal Partnerships:
+ Develops comprehensive understanding of business processes and priorities and b...