IT Application Solution Architect - Captive Finance

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda
Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

## Job Purpose

- This IT Solution Architect – CASS Applications, provides senior technical leadership for the design, development, integration, enhancement, and operational support of assigned CASS applications supporting AHFC and HCFI business operations. The position leads assigned technical workstreams, develops solution designs and architecture artifacts, conducts design and code reviews, coordinates technical activities across internal and managed-service resources, and supports production stability, release readiness, and continuous improvement.
- Working under the direction of the Team Manager and in partnership with business, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data, Cloud, and vendor teams, the Solution Architect recommends secure, scalable, reliable, supportable, and cost-effective solutions that align with approved business priorities and enterprise technology standards.
- The position provides technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to assigned technical resources but does not have formal people-management, budget-approval, contract-approval, or staffing-decision authority.

## Key Accountabilities

- Technical Solution Leadership – Provide technical leadership for assigned CASS application projects, enhancements, integrations, and production-support initiatives. Analyze business and technical requirements, recommend solution approaches, identify technical risks and dependencies, and coordinate implementation activities with internal teams, managed-service providers, and technology partners. Ensure recommended solutions align with approved architecture, security, data, infrastructure, and operational standards.
- Stakeholder and Cross-Functional Coordination – Build productive working relationships with AHFC and HCFI business partners, CF-IT teams, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data, Cloud, managed-service providers, and other technology partners. Communicate technical options, risks, dependencies, constraints, and recommendations clearly to support timely and informed decisions.
- Technical Coaching and Work Coordination – Provide technical direction, coaching, mentoring, design guidance, and knowledge transfer to assigned associates, contingent workers, and managed-service resources. Coordinate technical assignments and support consistent engineering practices, documentation, code quality, solution quality, and knowledge retention. Provide objective technical input to the Team Manager regarding resource capabilities, delivery risks, and development needs.
- Technical Project Delivery –Lead assigned technical workstreams and support the delivery of projects and enhancements within approved scope, schedule, quality, architecture, security, and operational-readiness requirements. Identify technical issues, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints, and escalate them to the Project Manager and Team Manager with recommended actions.
- Application Operations and Service Improvement – Provide technical oversight for the stability, performance, supportability, and recoverability of assigned CASS applications. Support incident management, problem management, root-cause analysis, release readiness, disaster-recovery activities, technical-debt remediation, and continuous service improvement. Monitor technical delivery by assigned managed-service resources and escalate performance, quality, capacity, and support concerns to the Team Manager.
- Solution Architecture and Engineering Quality – Design technical solutions for assigned CASS applications and initiatives. Prepare and maintain architecture artifacts such as context diagrams, integration diagrams, data-flow diagrams, deployment models, interface specifications, and architecture decision records. Conduct design and code reviews and recommend improvements to security, scalability, availability, maintainability, performance, and supportability. Lead architecture and engineering discussions for assigned technical workstreams. Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture and applicable review boards to obtain required approvals. Contribute technical input to application roadmaps and modernization plans developed under the direction of the Team Manager.

## Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

- Minimum education: A Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science / Engineering / Information Technology, or a related STEM field of study.

- Minimum work experience : At least 5 to 7 years of overall IT enterprise application experience, out of which 5 or more years in solution/application architecture, technical leadership, or software development leadership.
- Proven ability to lead technical workstreams and coordinate delivery across internal teams, contingent resources, and managed-service providers.
- Strong experience designing enterprise solutions, developing architecture artifacts, conducting design/code reviews, and applying security, scalability, availability, performance, resilience, and disaster-recovery principles.
- Must have demonstrable working knowledge of .NET, SQL, Salesforce, ETL, IBM MQ, IBM App Connect Enterprise, APIs, cloud services, and integration platforms.
- Experience with application modernization, production support, incident/problem management, root-cause analysis, release management, monitoring, and technical-debt remediation.
- Strong communication, risk management, coaching, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to guide technical decisions and provide objective feedback to management.

- Highly desirable: Prior experience working in captive finance, preferably from the automotive sector. Alternately, banking / finance sector experience may also be an asset, alongside good understanding SOX and other compliance guidelines related to this area

## Workstyle

- This is an onsite job. One remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval.

## Visa sponsorship issues

- This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

- Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
- Paid Overtime
- Regional Bonus (when applicable)
- Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
- Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
- Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

- Advancement Opportunities
- Career Mobility
- Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
- Training and Development programs

Additional Offerings:

- Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
- Lifestyle Account
- Childcare Reimbursement Account
- Elder Care Support
- Wellbeing Program
- Community Service and Engagement Programs
- Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.