Principal Solution Architect Automotive

What's the role?:
You will be a Principal Solution Architect, part of a team of seasoned and like-minded individuals within our Professional Services organization.

Day by day, you will regularly interface with customers around the globe as well with internal stakeholders, such as project, product, and engineering teams. Your goal: bring to life complex software solutions that advance HERE’s geo-location business and vision. Your peers will rely on you to provide them with technical leadership as well with business acumen.

Our team operates accross functional and technical domains (cloud services, embedded and mobile clients). We design the overall high-level system, explaining both problem and solution with clarity and precision to all necessary stakeholders. Consistent software requirement elicitation and management is essential in validating that we are building the right thing.

This role is mainly focused on our Automotive Clients and Embedded Software Solutions.

Preferably you're based in Germany, Poland, the Netherlands or Czech Republic

**Responsibilities**:

- Drive the draft solution design during the opportunity quotation phase (RfX).
- Identify the right products and technologies to solve the customers' problems.
- Be the primary point of contact and trusted technical advisor for all stakeholders.
- Map stakeholder requirements to system requirements.
- Develop static and behavioral views and define the interfaces for the system under the given requirements.
- Take timely decisions and communicate them to all necessary stakeholders.
- Take the lead and accountability for: the technical soundness and cost effectiveness of the solution across its lifecycle. From the bidding phase, to execution, to go-live, and finally to maintenance hand-over.

Who are you?:
This position is a great match for motivated, self-driven individuals with excellent English communication skills (both written and verbal).

You feel at home going deep in technical discussions with developers, documenting the high-level picture of complicated systems, and explaining their work to both technical and non-technical audiences.

As this is a senior position, you have a proven track record of architecture and leadership experience, ideally starting from an engineer background.
- Experience in software requirements' elicitation, analysis, and management.
- Experience providing guidance and leadership to engineers.
- Experience with several modern technologies and concepts (e.g. at least some of: cloud design, micro-service architectures, Kubernetes, security-first design, domain-driven design,...).- 10+ years of experience with Embedded C/C++ programming- Experience debugging in embedded environments such as QNX, Linux and in Android Automotive OS infotainment platform
- Analytical, conceptual, and troubleshooting abilities.
- Ability to work across teams, manage issues cross-functionally and remotely.
- Availability to occasionally travel abroad (post-pandemic).
- Availability to communicate across different time zones.
- Availability to offer coaching to others in own areas of expertise.
- Experience in pre-sales is a strong plus.

**What Do We Offer?**:

- HERE is a recognized leader in the geo-location business, and a cloud service provider. You have the chance of having an impact in the design of technically challenging, long-term solutions in use by millions of people, including a strong presence in the automotive sector.
- Your peers are part of an international team with many different backgrounds and strengths, available to offer coaching on a wide variety of topics. Never stop learning
- Freedom to decide how to perform your work, including a good degree of flexibility in setting your working hours.
- A remote/hybrid work policy and framework.
- Competitive salary, performance bonuses, and fringe benefits.

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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Who are we?:
HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes - from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

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