Senior Solution Engineer (Automotive Domain)

The Role:
If are eager to embark on a journey along with an organization to becoming the best tech, modern luxury, and sustainable mobility company in the world.
The Enterprise API portfolio is here to enable seamless new customer experiences across all our iconic brands. We are scaling our API operations and looking for the best talent to join us as Senior Solution Engineer

Key responsibilities:
Work closely as part of our teams and provide technical leadership in designing evolvable systems that can scale to meet our customer needs.
Help guide development using Automotive API patterns and Practices.
As part of the team, you will collaboratively be designing, implementing, and run API technology solutions on our platform.
Drive the strategic alignment of our products with our business models, with radical focus on delivering value to our business.
Ensure quality attributes such as security, reliability, performance etc. are always under consideration and the trade-offs understood.

Key skills/knowledge/experience:
Expert experience in Java & Spring Boot and/or similar language ( Go, Java Sscript) .
Expert experience with API First approach & API standards (REST, JSON, patterns & practices, RESTful API Design)
Expert experience with API Technology (API gateways) and API Security (Authentication/Authorisation/Identity Providers)
Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical subjects on multiple levels.
Experience working in cloud providers such as GCP, AWS or Azure and Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Terraform
Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience working in a genuine agile environment - scrum, Kanban, or anything in between
Worked in a true DevSecOps culture with
o Owning and feeling responsible for your code in production
o Inclusion of monitoring and observability with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
o Incident management with tools such as PagerDuty
A deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns and event-driven architecture.
Experience of working with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka etc.)

Good to have:
Genuine advocate for modern high-quality software engineering practices
Customer-focused, driven to deliver experiences our users will love and keen to collaborate with different product stakeholders from across the business.
An individual who is resilient, energetic, and enthusiastic, able to deliver results in a complex environment, whilst responding constructively to challenging innovative ideas and inputs
Comfortable challenging existing thinking in a positive way, whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style, bringing diverse new ways of thinking and perspectives to the team