Staff Architect, DevOpsDeveloper Experience (DevEx) Leader

HARMANs engineers and designers are creative purposeful and agile. As part of this team youll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day you will push the boundaries of creative design and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together youll discover that at HARMAN you can grow make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

Were a global multi-disciplinary team thats putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

• Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience
• Combine ingenuity in-depth research and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence
• Advance in-vehicle infotainment safety efficiency and enjoyment

About the Role

• Lead the Developer Experience (DevEx) pillar within the Software Factory responsible for improving how developers testers and integrators build test and deliver software across the enterprise. The role focuses on enabling secure standardized and efficient development workflows using automation and cloud-based platforms.
• Own the end-to-end developer ecosystem across the software lifecycle including onboarding development environments build and test workflows tooling integration and day-to-day developer productivity.
• Accountable for delivering an improved DevEx for approximately 2000 developers testers and integrators achieving around 20% effort savings and enabling approximately USD 25M in annual cost optimization through reduced setup time faster development cycles and improved tool standardization.
• Provide global leadership and mentoring to engineering teams across India Germany the United States Romania China and Mexico ensuring consistent adoption of DevEx standards and practices.
• Design and govern container-based development environments (e.g. cloud development workspaces) including capacity planning usage governance and cost optimization to ensure predictable spend and operational stability.
• Work closely with Engineering Architecture Security IT and Cloud teams to align DevEx initiatives with enterprise standards security requirements and business priorities.
• Define and track DevEx success metrics such as onboarding time platform adoption developer productivity and cost efficiency and provide regular status and financial impact reporting to leadership and controlling.

Your Team

• You will mentor a team of approximately 2000 Developers Testers and Integrators with indirect reporting located in India Germany US Romania China & Mexico regions.

What You Will Do

• Design implement and operate end-to-end developer platforms covering the full software lifecycle (code build test deploy and operate) with a strong focus on automation standardization and reliability.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native DevOps and platform engineering practices to improve engineering throughput software quality and operational stability across global teams.
• Establish and govern standard GitHub workflows for repositories branching pull requests code reviews and requirements traceability ensuring consistency auditability and scalable collaboration.
• Lead the integration of AI-enabled developer productivity tools including AI-assisted coding and automated test generation embedding them into daily engineering workflows to reduce manual effort and rework.
• Own end-to-end pipeline automation including build test static code analysis packaging and quality gates to ensure fast feedback consistent quality and reduced cycle time.
• Define and track developer productivity and experience metrics including DORA and flow metrics supported by dashboards and feedback loops to enable data-driven prioritization and continuous improvement.
• Define standardize and enforce toolchain governance across IDEs code quality tools and ALM integrations (e.g. IBM ALM Jira) balancing developer flexibility with enterprise standards and cost control.
• Improve developer onboarding efficiency through automation self-service and targeted training with a clear objective of completing onboarding in under three days for new developers.
• Act as a global mentor and change leader driving adoption of DevEx standards through training communication and best-practice sharing across regions and engineering communities.

What You Need to Be Successful

• 18 years in software engineering with strong DevOps/DevEx leadership experience.
• Expertise in containerization (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes) CI/CD frameworks (GitHub Actions Jenkins).
• Automotive domain knowledge (ASPICE safety cybersecurity).
• Familiarity with ALM tools (IBM ALM GitHub Enterprise Jira).
• Strong Agile and project management skills.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience with AI-driven developer tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot).
• Knowledge of cloud-native architectures and observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana).
• Proven track record in cultural transformation and developer experience improvement.

What Makes You Eligible

• Willing to travel globally up to 20%.
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment with occasional on-site visits.
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment (post-offer).
• This position requires the use of a HARMAN or customer-owned vehicle. As such any offer of employment will be contingent upon having a clean driving record which will be evaluated and determined in HARMANs sole discretion no more than four (4) active points for moving violations (issued by any motor vehicle agency) and no references to operating a vehicle under the influence of controlled substances within the last 10 years.

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
• Access to employee discounts on world-class products (JBL HARMAN Kardon AKG and more)
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
• Competitive wellness benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Be Brilliant employee recognition and rewards program
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.