CarLotz Hiring for Enterprise Architect Job at Richmond, VA Full Time

Enterprise Architect Job Description

CarLotz is a used vehicle consignment and Retail Remarketing™ business that provides our corporate vehicle sourcing partners and retail sellers of used vehicles with access to the previously inaccessible retail sales channel. While simultaneously providing buyers with prices that are, on average, below those of traditional dealerships. We operate a technology-enabled buying, sourcing, and selling model that offers a seamless omni-channel experience and comprehensive selection of vehicles, while allowing for a fully contactless end-to-end e-commerce interface that enables no hassle buying and selling. Our proprietary Retail Remarketing™ technology provides our corporate vehicle sourcing partners with real-time performance metrics and data analytics along with custom business intelligence reporting that enables price and vehicle triage optimization between the wholesale and retail channel. Through our marketplace model, we generate significant value for both sellers and buyers through price, selection, and experience.

As an Enterprise Architect in the CarLotz engineering team, you will be responsible for helping to lead technology decisions and technical approach for new capabilities and products within CarLotz. Our products are utilized by hundreds of thousands of users per month, and only growing. We will be looking to you to help ensure our product technology stack can continue to scale and has the built-in flexibility to meet ongoing changes in the marketplace. You would be responsible for taking the reins and extending the current technical vision into the future.

The CarLotz platform is driven end to end by a strong level of automation through DevOps pipelines, infrastructure as code and enforced quality engineering driven gating processes. We are looking for an Enterprise Architect who follows modern software development methodologies and has a strong serverless and Azure based background. You will be taking ownership of the current architecture and providing recommendations and driving direction to the various product engineering teams. Ensuring that the current levels of automation, consistency and confidence in deployment and delivery will continue as we expand.

The Enterprise Architect will work with the highly enthusiastic team of engineers building and operating our technology. You should have strong experience on Azure to help us efficiently:

· Work with technology and product leaders to help align on a common vision for architecture and development strategy

· Manage intake of new major features

· Make recommendations for future technology directions

· Extend the existing serverless architecture

· Lead our backend development team

· Act as a bridge between development teams to ensure everyone is building to a common vision

· Work with all team leaders to help surface concerns and feedback from each dev team

· Drive architecture processes and reviews

· Make broad recommendations for how to approach new capabilities

· Work with business stakeholders to help flesh out all needs related to a new capability

· Help with building out proofs of concept to vet potential approaches

· Act as lead dev for backend development

Requirements:

· BA/BS in business, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

· Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mentality

· Problem-solving aptitude and desire to automate

· Experience with planning and building a team

· Experience with automated testing of published binaries in Azure DevOps

· At least 3 Years of Cloud Native application architecture experience

· At least 5 Years of experience building and leading teams

· At least 3 Years of Microsoft Azure experience

· Strong familiarity with managing branch strategies

· Familiar with serverless architecture

· Familiar with JAMStack architecture

· The ability to lift up to 10 pounds

· Background and drug screen required

Who We Are & Why We Exist

“What if there was a better way to buy and sell vehicles?”

This question started the problem-solving sessions that now have CarLotz disrupting the automotive industry. With our innovative consignment model, sellers get thousands more than trade-in and buyers get great cars for less than traditional retail prices. Our team is our future, so we’ve developed a training program. In our first class, participants learn to live the CarLotz values to build rapport and earn trust. We have an apprenticeship model, so get ready to learn.

If you think you have what it takes to succeed at CarLotz, please apply. CarLotz is committed to diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CarLotz participates in E-verify. This position is exempt.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• Azure: 1 year (Preferred)
• AWS: 1 year (Preferred)
• APIs: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location:

• One location

Work Remotely:

• No

Work Location: One location