Principal Solution Architect - Professional Services

As a Principal Solution Architect, you will be part of a team of seasoned and like-minded individuals within our Professional Services organization.

You will regularly interface with customers as well with internal stakeholders around the globe, such as project, product, and engineering teams. Your goal will be to 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 often crosses functional and technical domains (cloud services, embedded and mobile clients). Being familiar with all these domains is a huge plus, but for this role the key will be deep understanding of the automotive domain, especially AD/ADAS systems in embedded environments. You will 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.

• Driving the draft solution design during the ideation and opportunity quotation phases (RfX).

• Identifying the right products and technologies to solve the customers' problems.

• Being the primary point of contact and trusted technical advisor for all stakeholders (internal and external).

• Mapping stakeholder requirements to system requirements.

• Developing static and behavioral views and defining the interfaces for the system under the given requirements.

• Taking timely decisions and communicating them to all necessary stakeholders.

• Taking 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.

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. You have a proven track record of architecture and technical leadership roles, ideally starting from an engineer background. Battle scars from real production deployments are what we will be looking for as proof of your experience.

You are a strong fit for this role if you possess the following qualifications, skills, competencies and experience:

• A Graduate Degree in Computers Engineering, Information Technology or related fields

• Experience in software requirements' elicitation, analysis, and management.

• Experience providing guidance and leadership to engineers.

• 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

• 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, ...).

• Experience with AI integrations and solutions

• Analytical, conceptual, and troubleshooting abilities. Experience in Presales is nice to have.

• Ability to work across teams, manage issues cross-functionally and remotely.

• Strong communication skills in English and Mandarin

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.

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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