IT Lead Solution Architect - API Practice
IT Lead Solution Architect - API Practice
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Job Description
Overview
Enterprise Mobility is the worlds largest car rental operator and an industry leader inmobility and technology.Were one of the top global travel companies ranking ahead of many airlines and most cruise lines and hotels. And no matter what transportation challenges our customers face we have an innovativesolution.
We operate the Enterprise RentACar National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands via more than 10000 fully staffed neighborhood and airport offices including franchisee branches in over 90 countries and territories.
Through this robust global network we operate a fleet of over 2.3 million vehicles and provide a comprehensive portfolio of transportation solutions including car rental carsharing vanpooling car sales truck rental vehiclesubscription and affiliated fleet management services. As a total mobility provider we serve the needs of a wide variety of customers businesses government agencies and organizations every day.
At the center of it all our dedicated IT teams innovate design and develop the technology that is redefining how customers rent buy and share vehicles from our family of brands. Here you will be part of a diverse and talented team that creates and delivers powerful technology solutions for our customers and employees across the world with the resources and support to develop in a variety of career paths.
As an Enterprise Mobility team member we offer an excellent package with marketcompetitive pay comprehensive healthcare packages 401k matching & profit sharing schedule flexibility work from home opportunities paid time off and organizational growth potential.
This position offers the opportunity to work fully remote within the United States (except for Alaska and/or Hawaii). Team members who choose virtual / remote work should have an adequate space to serve as their home office and must be able to work a schedule within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours.#LIREMOTE
Responsibilities
The Lead Architect in the API Practice will work closely with solution teams across the organization help promote a culture of an API first approach in solution design by coaching and guiding the solution engineering team. This individual will help design the APIs required for alignment with the guiding principles best practices and standards laid out by EM. Through these efforts the architect will contribute to the API marketplace and ensure a single version of the truth of business capabilities. The architect will also participate and contribute significantly to the goals of other workstreams of the Enterprise Mobility API Governance.
To be successful in this role you will need to influence and partner with other technologists and leaders. You will need to foster relationships with engineers architects and people leaders to ensure we are developing cohesive and comprehensive solutions.
Additional Responsibilities:
Project Planning & Strategic Planning
- May contribute to the development of strategic planning for the department and communicates clear concise strategic vision
- Assists with project planning; provides technical leadership to project teams and/or leads project teams within own area/department and across functional teams
- Works on large complex initiatives that address future concepts products or technologies; analyzes and evaluates all variable factors and risk
- Defines develops communicates and implements standards processes and procedures for the team or department
Building Relationships
- Maintains effective relationships with all levels of company management internal and external customers that promotes understanding and produces results for both parties
Innovation & Decision Making
- Establishes and monitors key performance metrics to ensure compliance of established standards processes and procedures
- Analyzes influences and translates business requirements into architectural blueprints that align with overall technology vision. May contribute to the global architecture strategies
- Gathers and identifies solution needs; performs risk analysis defines the architecture; acts as the ambassador to drive key stakeholder acceptance
- Defines creates and evaluates processes; identifies recommends and influences strategic solutions; designs solutions using indepth knowledge of business strategy security technologies and architectural methods
- Defines the architectural considerations and collaborates with Engineers on the direction for the development of solutions or enhancements; may lead the discovery process. Maintains knowledge of emerging architectural methods and technologies for application to the environment
Leading & Inspiring
- Listens to and evaluates customer needs to determine and provide high quality solutions that align with customer expectations; Identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures others are aligned with customer expectations
- Provides guidance and oversight across multiple solutions to ensure that the technologies are secure interoperate and connect appropriately and also support company vision and strategy
- Actively coaches mentors and teaches others; uses influence expertise and leadership to support other teams as they implement solutions
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans
Qualifications
Required:
- Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
- Must reside in the United States (does not include Alaska or Hawaii)
- Must be able to work a schedule within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours.
- 8 or more years of relevant experience (designing and developing large scale applications)
- Experience with Open API and microservices design in a cloud environment
- Strong knowledge of REST principles
- Experience creating and delivering presentations to executive leaders with the ability to influence and defend business decisions
- Experience mentoring and developing future technical leaders within the organization
- Professional experience identifying and gathering solution needs; performing risk analysis defining architecture; acting and driving key stakeholder acceptance
- Experience defining architectural considerations and collaborating with Engineers on the direction for the development of solutions or enhancements
- Experience leading / guiding others through transformational architect changes
- Ability to communicate at all levels build and foster relationships including coaching and mentoring other architects engineers and business leaders
- Proven ability to operate in a highly autonomous fashion repeatedly exercises exceptional independent judgment balances strategic against tactical planning delegates wherever possible
- Experience developing documenting and maintaining architectural blueprints
- Ability to approach things with an agile and pragmatic response as it relates to critical thinking and shifting business priorities
- Stay up to date on industry trends products applications technical service market conditions and competitive activities
- Protects our customers our employees and our brands by incorporating security and compliance in all decisions; ensures security policy and procedure requirements are met; continuously identifies opportunities for improving security and implements strategies to improve our security posture
Preferred:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Information Systems Management Information Systems or related field preferred
- 1 or more years experience with eventing/event drive architecture
- Experience with Object Oriented design and modeling
Employment Type
Full-Time
