Staff Architect, Business Technology

As a Staff Architect, you’ll work with an industry-leading Video Telematics system, which manages massive amounts of video and data collected from over 600,000 vehicles worldwide.

Be responsible for architecting the Lytx Cloud Platform, which provides the platform for innovative solutions for improving the safety and operational efficiency of commercial transportation drivers and fleets. Collaborate on strategic and tactical architectural roadmaps, communicate enterprise architectural vision and direction, guide solution development in and with teams, and contribute to architecture design artifacts. Build proofs of concept and prototype implementations. Work with multiple engineering teams to implement highly scalable, secure, and performant solutions.  Doesn’t that sound exciting?

You’ll Get To

• Work on a cloud native stack including MQTT, Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and AWS native tools.
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders to define solution requirements, identify key constraints, and contribute to the Lytx Cloud Platform architectural roadmap in areas such as security, micro-service design
• Enable software teams to design scalable solutions to manage events and real-time status of over a million independent devices. Ensure non-functional requirements for these solutions, and work with development teams to achieve goals.
• Participate in architecture reviews and decision-making.  Communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to modify existing solutions and introduce new solutions to the market.
• Embed architectural best practices into reusable patterns, infrastructure and / or libraries to facilitate and team adoption.
• Identify and conduct experiments and proofs of concept to narrow technology decisions.
• Share knowledge with other architects and engineers to grow their skills and build high quality software.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need: 

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Enterprise software engineering and architecture with 8+ years’ combined experience building scalable distributed solutions.
• Strong technology background in the delivery of complex systems. Experience delivering IoT solutions, big data solutions, and solutions on the public cloud is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience working with internal and external stakeholders to develop and refine business and technical solutions
• Agile software development and agile software architecture experience.
• Passion for collaboration with and mentoring software engineers.

You’re driven to succeed and so are we. At Lytx, our mission is to protect a world in motion, and we do it by building technology and partnerships that help keep people safe on the road. The way we work is guided by our shared values: Deliver for the customer, Responsibility in every outcome, Innovate with purpose, Velocity with excellence, and Elevate each other.

If you’re looking for meaningful work, a team that challenges and supports you, and the chance to grow your career while making a real impact, we’d love to meet you.

Together, we’re helping make roadways safer and saving lives!

Lytx, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender, genetic information, uniformed service, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, or any other status protected by federal or state law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email TA@lytx.com.  Lytx conducts background checks on applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment in accordance with applicable local, state, federal and regional laws. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment and will be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, federal and regional laws.