Lead Software Architect - Automated Driving Data Delivery (M/F/D)

At CARIAD, it’s our mission to transform automotive mobility for everyone, everywhere, making it safer, more sustainable, and more comfortable in every way.
To deliver on that promise, we’re building a unified technology and software platform, including a vehicle OS and cloud platform, as well as a unified architecture. As a 100% subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, we’re developing solutions for all of its brands, including Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche, and will bring our software to over 40 million vehicles by 2030.

Is this an easy task? Not at all! To tackle such a huge challenge, we need a great team. And that’s where you come in. You’ll join more than 5,000 CARIDIANS already working on the latest vehicle features and functions like automated driving, state-of-the-art charging technology, as well as a new digital ecosystem. Together, we’re bringing sustainable change to one of the largest companies in the world.

YOUR TEAM

The Vehicle and Cloud Platform is composed of products like the VW.OS, the next generation of in-vehicle SW platform, or the VW Automotive Cloud, a cloud platform dedicated to automotive online services. Moreover, it covers enabling technologies like data collection and management, updateability and digital lifecycle management of all vehicle software, connectivity solutions and mobile online services.

We develop the overarching data platform for vehicle data which is used for data driven product development in CARIAD and all brands of Volkswagen Group. Assisted and automated driving functions are one of the main driver of innovation in the automotive industry. Our data delivery team is responsible for developing a scalable and future proof data delivery platform comprising of all new and already established requirements for data driven development for automated driving (Level 4). As team we support each other by sharing best practices, knowledge and experience. The team is distributed over our offices in Berlin, Ingolstadt, Mönsheim/Stuttgart and Wolfsburg. #AutonomousDriving

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Act as the technical lead of our agile development teams developing and operating Data Delivery for automated driving
• Lead the technical design and build the infrastructure framework, influence data design and engineering across the team, enabling the creation and operation of these assets
• Be responsible for the conception and development of a scalable data stack for data driven development and data as a product
• Design, coordinate and optimize the technical Data architectur an infrastructure in the domain of Measurement Data and Data Processing
• Benchmark your architecture proposals, bring forward the teams vision and align it to the regulatory framework, standards and guidelines
• Work closely with the Solution Architects to develop, analyze, split and realize the data platform capabilities stack
• Deliver high-quality software within specified time and budget constraints

WHO YOU ARE

• Successfully completed studies in the field of computer science or comparable studies
• Proven experience in leading the design, delivery and implementation of technology solutions into cloud platforms (e.g. Azure) and ideally in the design of big data solutions
• Several years of hands-on experience in software development and architecture of cloud solutions
• Knowledge and in-depth understanding of scalable architectural styles and patterns for building a data processing platform
• Profound knowledge in the infrastructure of cloud-based solutions (e.g. AWS, Azure), in modern DWH technologies (e.g. AWS Redshift/Snowflake) or Data Mesh
• Experience in agile software development, ideally lean agile methods (SAFe, LeSS)
• Fluent English language skills (oral and written)

NICE TO KNOW

• Remote work options
• Temporary work from abroad in selected countries
• Flextime / optional working hours
• Company pension plan
• Annual professional development
• Sabbatical option up to 6 months
• 30 days paid + 10 days unpaid leave
• Possibility for VW Group car leasing
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