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The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.Job Description\nCox Automotive’s architecture group is reimagining the car-buying and service experience from inventory management, consumer shopping, service, and deal inception to close. The CAI Architecture Team architects and evolves the platforms that power inventory management, deal creation, validation, and service across the retail lifecycle.\nThe Principal Solution Architect provides technical leadership for key Cox Automotive products, advancing platform modernization, solution architecture, and AI initiatives across CAI services.\nKey Responsibilities\nDrive solution design from discovery through delivery - shaping epics, validating assumptions, surfacing risks early, and aligning across teams to target architecture\nPartner with engineering, product, and agile leaders to sequence and prioritize architectural investments, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health\nChampion adoption of Cox Automotive’s Common tenancy and user management platforms and AWS-native patterns within the value stream\nIdentify, evaluate, and champion generative AI capabilities for new products and features, aligning implementations with Retail Agentic Platform standards and establishing reusable architecture practices.\nProduce and maintain architectural artifacts - roadmaps, decision records, solution diagrams, integration models - that give teams clear, actionable direction\nAssess emerging AI technologies and coordinate with governance partners to ensure ethical, regulatory, security, and enterprise standards are addressed.\nPromote reusable patterns and frameworks to accelerate Product development and AI adoption. \nTranslate business objectives and constraints into practical solution options, trade-offs, and technical recommendations for delivery teams.\nBuild engineering teams’ AI capabilities through hands-on mentoring, design reviews, and guidance on applying approved patterns.\nLead proofs of concept and reference implementations that validate architectural assumptions, reduce delivery risk, and establish reusable implementation patterns.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years' experience; or 20 years' experience in a related field.\nProven ability to align diverse stakeholders around technical direction, navigate ambiguity, and drive consensus across engineering, product, and business teams.\nHighly analytical and capable of diving technically deep to rapidly deliver proof-of-concepts and perform experimentation.\nBreadth of architectural knowledge spanning application, integration, and platform domains, with the ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.\nExtensive technical experience in application architecture and API delivery at scale.\nExperience developing APIs at scale using GraphQL and/or REST.\nExperience in full development life cycle with significant experience delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.\nStrong familiarity with architecting for and delivering solutions in a public cloud environment (AWS preferred).\nHands-on experience with AI technologies and concepts (LLMs, autonomous agents, vector databases, model selection, agent-based architecture, data pipeline, AI-assisted PDLC, etc.)\nExperience working within DevOps cultures, with a focus on process improvement, automation, and continuous delivery.\nPreferred Qualifications\nProven ability to identify and select appropriate application and data systems for varied workloads - integrations, processing, APIs, and operational reporting.\nDeep understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and async messaging patterns at consumer scale.\nExperience with API governance, API contract management, and establishing standards across engineering teams.\nDemonstrated ability to drive platform thinking - identifying reuse opportunities, reducing duplication, and shaping shared capabilities across delivery streams.\nTrack record of enabling teams through influence without authority - mentoring engineers, shaping technical direction, and elevating architectural maturity across an organization.\nDrug Testing\nTo be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.Benefits\nThe Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.About Us\nThrough groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells - or simply uses - cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. 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