Cloud Architect

Job Description: Job Title1: Cloud Architect Work Location: Detroit, MI. Long Term Contract/Full Time Job Description: Build your brand. Tell your story. Take advantage of a rare opportunity to do something great! We are looking for technology game changers to help Client's lead a transformation within the automotive industry. Technology has the potential to disrupt the automotive industry significantly in the next decade, and our organization is seeking high potential candidates to digitally transform the company with a focus on customer experience. Client's' Software Driven Experience (SWX) Organization is looking for a Connected Services Feature Architect. The Feature Architect will be responsible for architecting technical solutions to business processes for Client's brand's connected services global offerings. They are responsible for creating end-to-end technical solution for several connected features within our cloud-based architecture. The domains related to Client's Connected Car are the following:

• Digital Drive - Enhancing the customer's daily driving experience and comfort.
• Digital Life - building the connected vehicle ecosystem as the center of the customer's digital mobility journey.
• Vehicle Ownership - Driving maximum convenience and connectivity access to the customer's experience throughout the ownership lifecycle.
• Platform & Enablers - improving every aspect of our connected services and accelerating product development speed and quality.

• Responsible for the end-to-end design and delivery of bug-free off-board features.
• Work with all stakeholders to ensure timely progress and remove all blockers as needed.
• Responsible for managing the quality of deliverables and services by suppliers within contractual boundaries.
• Build and maintain relationships with all the internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for the detailed design (API details, parameters, payloads) of the component interactions to deliver a feature.
• Work with requirements team in assimilating (Feature) requirements.
• Collaborate with the Solution Architect to reuse existing design patterns and components.
• Work with customer channel leads to ensure design is consistent based on requirements.
• Ensure the DFMEA (Design failure mode and effect analysis) / TARA (threat analysis and risk assessment) risks and issues are addressed 100%.
• Provide clarification to development teams and resolve dependencies in a timely manner.
• Publish / approve design documents to ensure alignment across component teams.
• Validate estimates from development partners and recommend approvals.
• Coordinate resolution of all issues identified by the various validation teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Engg.
• 5+ years of systems software development experience.
• Experience with Cloud, IOT platforms and API designs.
• Experience integrating complex multi systems solutions.
• Experience developing artifacts such as Entity Relation Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, User Stories, Use Cases, Swim Lanes, etc.
• Experience evaluating existing system and architecture designs.
• Demonstrated leadership and initiative to collaborate with global teams to creatively solve complex problems.
• Troubleshooting / Root cause analysis experience.
• Ability to work within onshore/offshore application development supplier engagement model.
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills both oral and written.
• Accountable for resolving issues and maintaining project timelines.

• Programming experience.
• AWS Experience or Certification.
• Prior experience in Connected Vehicle Prior experience working with an Automotive OEM.
• Strong understanding of the agile manifesto.
• Familiarity with model-based design concepts and modelling languages and tools (UML/SysML).
• Familiarity with robust failure mode analysis and planning (DFMEA).
• Familiarity with system sequence and interaction modelling.
• Familiarity with modern software development techniques - CICD, TDD, DDD, BDD, Pairing, Mob development.