Senior System Architect - Measurement Data Platform and Processing in Ingolstadt bei CARIAD SE

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 6,000 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. With our unified data ecosystem, we empower our customers achieving value through outstanding data quality and performance. We enable the data-driven development, perform data services, and create data products that are used to improve all kinds of products.

We are shaping the future of measurement data usage with a focus on high-frequency IoT data for retrieval, analysis and provision for data-driven development. To this end, we offer methods and tools for collecting and processing vehicle measurement data. These are in particular sensor data (e.g. camera, radar, GPS data) from our test vehicles, which contribute extremely large amounts of data. As team we support each other by sharing best practices, knowledge, and experience. The team is distributed over our offices in Berlin, Ingolstadt, München, Mönsheim/Stuttgart and Wolfsburg.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• End-to-end responsibility for data lifecycle and work closely with the other Solution Architects to develop, analyze, split and realize the data platform capabilities stack
• Design, coordinate and optimize the technical architecture in the domain of measurement data
• Benchmark your architecture proposals, bring forward the team's vision and align it to the regulatory framework, standards and guidelines
• Participate in planning, evaluating, and defining the high-level design of the system, exploration of solution alternatives and system documentation
• Maintain the architectural work artifacts, i.e. system and component design, solution design and capability map
• Enable AI/ML as core for future development with measurement data
• Deliver high-quality software within specified time and budget constraints

WHO YOU ARE

• Academic degree in information science, software engineering, data science or equivalent
• Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience in system architecture of cloud solutions; hands-on backend software development experience is a plus (e.g. Java, Python, C#)
• Proven experience as an architect in leading on the design, delivery, and implementation into cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Knowledge and in-depth understanding regarding scalable architectural styles and patterns for building a data processing platform for IoT devices
• Working experience in microservice concepts and their implementations, distributed systems and with event stream or batch processing engines (e.g. CI/CD, Kafka, Helm K8s, Kubernetes, Elastic Stack, databricks, Ray)
• Experience in agile software development, ideally lean agile methods (SAFe, LeSS)
• Strong communication skills and a customer-driven mindset and fluent communication in English is a must

NICE TO KNOW

• Remote work options
• Temporary work from abroad in selected countries
• Flextime / optional working hours
• Company pension plan