Senior Chief Architect

At TTTech Auto, part of NXP, we are on a mission to craft "The Vehicle of the Future" and we want you in. 

We are a leading platform product and service provider with a focus on System, Safety, and Security for the

Software-Defined Vehicle (4SDV) with the global scale and support of NXP. With series production experience from millions of vehicles and a strong technology portfolio, we enable OEMs to accelerate SDV development while optimizing system performance, safety, and integration. 

You will work in a very diverse and multicultural environment together with 1000+ colleagues distributed in more than 10 locations whose passion for high-tech innovation is making an impact to the world. You are a click away from living the TTTech Auto experience. 

Are you our next Senior Chief Architect? Keep reading!

Your tasks:

• Build and maintain the architectural roadmap by defining and planning enabler features
• in alignment with business priorities.
• Collect, clarify and document architecturally significant requirements, constraints and
• quality goals in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders (e.g. Product Management
• and Solution Architecture).
• Define the architecture by designing its building-blocks, interfaces and behavior and
• document your decisions using various architectural views.
• Communicate the designed structures and decisions to ensure it is well understood by
• relevant stakeholders and team.
• Guide the realization of the architecture by reviewing and providing feedback to work
• products of development teams to ensure their implementation fits intended design.
• Evaluate the architecture and its realization by assessing its quantitative and qualitative
• quality characteristics ensuring it fulfills the given quality goals.
• Lead and guide the software architects in the team.
• Foster a culture of architectural excellence by mentoring other software architects in
• their work and conducting knowledge sharing sessions.
• Ensure that company architectural processes and procedures are well known and
• understood in all teams.

Your role:

• Requirements Engineering: Is capable of understanding the impact of stakeholder requirements on the architecture, deriving architecture requirements from them, documenting these in a precise and understandable manner, and managing their lifecycle.
• Knows state-of-the-art architecture styles (like layered architecture and SOA) and design principles (like OOP) and is capable of applying them to practical problems in such a way that a modular, maintainable and extensible system architecture is created. Knows and possesses the necessary skills to specify complex software architectures using appropriate methods, such as modeling languages (like UML) and interface description languages (e.g., OMG IDL) as well as corresponding tools (e.g., Enterprise Architecture).
• Is capable of defining important quality attributes and related quality goals for the software system as well as its architecture and can develop suitable strategies for verification and validation, e.g. by applying automated testing methods.
• Communication skills - The ability to convey information clearly and effectively in written and verbal form.
• Decision-making ability - The capability to make informed and timely decisions.
• Strategic thinking - Setting long-term goals and developing strategic plans.

Our Offer:

• Exciting work environment – be part of future high-tech innovations and cutting-edge technologies.
• We are a team – flat hierarchies, open door policy, communication at eye level and hands-on mentality.
• Technical Expertise – work among fellow technical experts and minds that will inspire you.
• Career development - individual onboarding plan, various training programs and internal career opportunities.
• Trust & responsibility – turn your ideas into reality from day one and integrate your work into the products of world-leading companies.
• Flexibility at work - flexible work schedule and casual dress code.