Solution Architect

As an independent group of companies, the BMW Group has a commitment to creativity and breakthrough ideas that goes well beyond the racetrack. In order to continuously create ultimate driving machines, we drive our growth and design excellence by staffing our teams with individuals who are innovative and always looking for the next great idea. If you share our vision and view yourself as an independent, creative thinker, we invite you to join our team in this exceptional role.

WHAT AWAITS YOU.

• Leading architectural and design efforts across multiple products, domains, primes, leveraging BMW processes, agile/DevOps models, and IT standards.
• Driving technical change and innovation, advocating new technologies within senior business and IT networks.
• Acting as a full stack team member supporting analysis, development, and operations to overcome technical challenges.
• Overseeing software design and engineering, ensuring secure coding, adherence to guidelines, and mentoring developers.
• Promoting operational excellence by consolidating designs, documenting procedures, resolving tier-3 DevOps escalations, and leading application upgrades.
• Ensuring high availability and business agility through cloud-native toolchains and problem-solving across products.
• Supporting and leads Agile project activities, emphasizing customer-centric system design and clear business requirements.
• Defining technology vision, integrates new technologies, and evaluates external solutions to enhance efficiency and competitiveness.

WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING.

• BA/BS degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering or the equivalent of 4 years of experience in the management of information technology application development, maintenance and support.
• 7+ years of demonstrated success in Information Technology, with at least:
  • 5+ years in a senior-level software engineering role.
  • 3+ years architecting complex systems for senior engineers.
  • 1+ years working in Agile projects.
• Experience in architecture and IT landscape aspects of the common and upcoming technologies used for BMW NA’s and the regional solution stacks.
• Experience in the technical solution stack applied in the incumbent’s area of responsibility, e.g. Java, .Net, C#, Web, databases, Angular JS, T-SQL, Python, HTML, Oracle
• Experience in software engineering and understanding of software architecture concepts, e.g. AWS, user experience design and test-driven development, test automation and continuous integration and deployment, Rest API and other service-oriented architecture approaches.
• Experience with Cloud Native Computing, esp. Docker & Kubernetes in public cloud.