Job Functions and Responsibilities 

- Provides design solutions to new requirements and bug fixes within an application.  
- Leads collaboration with IS delivery lead and product owner. 
- Have designs reviewed by ERB (Enterprise Review Board). 
- Provide solutions strictly adhering to enterprise security, compliance, and legal standards. 
- Provide solutions strictly adhering to enterprise design patterns and enterprise/industry best practices. 
- Continuously provides solutions to improve application security, performance, resiliency, scalability, automation, maintainability, and cost savings. 
- Drives digital transformation of legacy applications. 
- Leads cloud migrations of applications off on-prem data center. 
- Works with DevOps team for provisioning of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. 
- Provides guidance and support for test automation, pen tests, performance, and chaos tests.  
- Assist support teams with troubleshooting and provide solutions to production issues. 
- Drives test automation, pen tests, performance, and chaos tests.  
- Provide guidance to development and support teams. 
- Provides guidance to developers on secure coding standards and vulnerability remediation. 
- Promotes operational excellence through stable, supportable solutions. 
- Supports operational readiness by using standard coding practices, supported platforms and components, and inclusive of monitoring tools/ solutions in designs. 

Required Skills: 

- 7 to 10 years of experience in IT. 
- 5+ years of experience in Architecture. 
- 3+ years of experience of creating cloud solutions, preferably AWS. 
- Experience with serverless cloud architectures. 
- 5+ years of experience of hands-on API (REST/Graph)/microservices design and development (backend), preferably in Node.js, Python or Java. 
- Hands-on experience with various developer and devops tools. 
- Good understanding of various authentication and authorization frameworks (such as SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0). 
- Solid knowledge of API Managers or Gateways. 
- Good understanding of messaging and streaming services like Kafka, Active MQ, Rabbit MQ, SQS, SNS. 
- Solid knowledge of DevOps and CICD concepts. 
- Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum environment. 
- Skilled in designing highly resilient, highly scalable, cost efficient, highly secure and easily maintainable application solutions. 
- Expertise in troubleshooting various technical issues. Able to quickly troubleshoot production issues and provide solutions.  
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. 
- Obsession to provide solutions that are customer centric. 
- Basic understanding of technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization. 
- Proven ability to quickly comprehend, learn and adopt new technologies. 
- Solid understanding of production support concepts, importance of application observability / monitoring, and stable, supportable design concepts. 

Strongly Prefered Skills: 

- AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification 
- Basic understanding of how Captive Finance not necessarily automotive industry would be good 
- Knowledge of vendor management, contract management, customer relationship management; project management skills; strong working knowledge of automotive business systems; oral and written communications skills; interpersonal skills; and conflict resolution skills. 
- Basic understanding of BI/Data, Reporting and Analytics  
- Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure (preferably AWS) and Services 
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, forecasting, portfolio management and/or collaboration tools. 
 
Education: 

- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline. Advanced degree preferred.  
- Technical certifications a plus: AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification.

Mexico City Mexico