Director – Vehicle Software Platform Architecture

About the role

We are looking for a leader to own the vehicle software platform architecture roadmap and lead its execution across a large, cross-functional engineering organization. The role involves translating architectural strategy into practical guidance, standards, and governance that engineering teams can act on, ensuring the platform architecture scales effectively across many products, variants, and markets over time, and partnering with program teams, functional domain leaders, and hardware/electronics teams to align the architecture roadmap with product plans.

Responsibilities

• Own the vehicle software platform architecture roadmap and lead its execution across a large, cross-functional engineering organization
• Translate architectural strategy into practical guidance, standards, and governance that engineering teams can act on
• Ensure the platform architecture scales effectively across many products, variants, and markets over time
• Ensure the vehicle platform's connection to the cloud is architected coherently, reliably, and securely as part of the overall system
• Partner with program teams, functional domain leaders, and hardware/electronics teams to align the architecture roadmap with product plans and influence hardware direction based on platform needs
• Build organizational alignment and sustained adoption of the architecture across a large, previously siloed engineering organization
• Guide how architectural change is sequenced and introduced across current and future platform generations
• Represent the architecture strategy and its execution progress to senior leadership and cross-functional executive stakeholders
• Build, mentor, and grow a team of platform software architects

Requirements

• 12+ years of industry experience, with significant portion architecting and/or leading execution of complex, distributed software systems at scale — automotive, off-highway, aerospace, defense, cloud/IoT, or similar domains
• Demonstrated experience building or driving adoption of software architecture at a portfolio/fleet/platform scale, not a single product
• Proven experience defining or governing architectural standards and strategies that scaled across many teams or products
• Proven ability to drive architectural adoption and change management across large, previously siloed engineering organizations
• Strong executive communication and strategic influence skills
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performance teams

Qualifications

• Experience architecting systems where software must operate reliably across variable, evolving, or heterogeneous hardware
• Experience architecting the flow of data and control between distributed/embedded systems and cloud platforms, including digital twin or fleet-telemetry patterns
• Experience with modern software-defined systems practices (e.g., service-oriented or cloud-native architectures applied to embedded/distributed systems, OTA lifecycle management)
• Experience guiding architecture transitions across hardware or platform generations
• Experience with mixed-criticality, safety-relevant system architecture
• Experience building or scaling virtual validation environments (SIL/MIL/HIL, digital twins, cloud-based simulation)

Skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to influence and engage cross-functional teams
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Leadership and mentoring skills

Benefits

In return, you will receive:

• Excellent compensation
• A comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation, and much more
• Professional and personal growth and recognition opportunities
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• A vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

Pay

Details about pay will be provided during the interview process.

Schedule

The schedule for this role will be discussed during the interview process.