Aufgaben About UsMercedes-Benz is USA is responsible for the sales marketing and service of all Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States. In our people you will find tremendous commitment to our corporate values. Our products and employees reflect this dedication. We are looking for diverse top-notch individuals to join the Mercedes-Benz Team and uphold these hallmarks.Job OverviewThe Digital Application Architect position requires an individual who is a highly skilled IT professional with end to end architecture leadership for all Digital Customer Experience DCX Platforms leading all facets of system development and support within all development and project tracks for the IT Digital Customer Experience Application space including but not limited to OneWeb PCVans www.mbusa.com www.mbvans.com eCommerce 1CU applications across NAFTA. This role is accountable for defining governing and evolving the application architecture strategy and roadmap ensuring consistent scalable and high-performing digital experiences aligned to business outcomes. The architect operates across multiple product teams vendors and platforms to ensure design integrity cross-platform alignment and long-term technology sustainability while adhering to enterprise architecture standards. The Application architect should closely align with the platform infrastructure team that supports each web application. The ideal candidate would be responsible for the implementation of large-scale information technology projects for Marketing & Sales along with operational support of the existing systems used by these departments. Project responsibilities include project plans resource planning executive management reporting technical leadership resourceteam coaching systems integration technical architecture and vendor management. Operational support responsibilities include managing work assignments and deliverables for enhancements to the sites resolution of defects oversight of the QA process and deployment to live sites. In addition this role should be a guiding role for FOSS use standards and tracking within the organization.This position reports to directly to the Senior Manager for IT Digital Customer Experience.ResponsibilitiesThe tasks include but are not limited to•Own end‑to‑end Digital Customer Experience solution architecture across frontend backend integration data cloud security and observability ensuring architectural decisions are directly traceable to measurable business outcomes performance scalability availability conversion.•Act as the single architectural owner accountable for design integrity across Frontend BFFAPI backend services Integration and data flows Cloud infrastructure security and observability•Ensure architectural decisions are traceable to business outcomes conversion performance scalability availability.•Lead and enable engineering teams to deliver with speed stability and quality through clear direction feedback coaching and proactive operational oversight.•Define and enforce application architecture standards design patterns and reference implementations across Digital Customer Experience platforms CMS eCommerce Salesforce 1CU ensuring consistency scalability and reusability across delivery teams -- in alignment with Enterprise architecture infrastructure and security guidelines and standards•Versatile team player and individual contributor with strong influence communication analytical and problem-solving skills•Manage timelines and scope creep- Ensure architectural scope sequencing and dependencies are actively managed to prevent scope creep and delivery risk.•Provide architectural oversight and governance for CICD cloud environments CMS platforms CDN monitoring and developer tooling in partnership with DevOps and platform teams Including but not limited tooReview and oversight of Jenkins pipeline setup review maintenance and support while leading in execution of respective pipelines. Work with DevOps teams to coordinate Jenkins pipelines CICD for deployment on AWSoCDN administrator rules engine and domain maintaineroGitHub Enterprise supportoGoogle maps administratoroDataDog support•Establish and lead architecture review processes design reviews solution assessments and technical decision frameworks to ensure alignment with defined MBUSA DCX architecture principles and business objectives.•Define and track architecture-level KPIs e.g. page performance uptime deployment frequency defect rates and continuously refine architectural decisions based on measurable outcomes.•Assess ambiguous situations and provide clarity to team and stakeholders as requiredDevelopment and Leadership•Operate as the architecture lead across multiple product teams and vendors ensuring alignment of design decisions minimizing duplication and enabling consistent delivery across parallel workstreams.•Responsible for developing in accordance with MBUSA system development Methodologies. Designing programming and troubleshooting problems on new or existing technologies. Interface with Product OwnersProduct Managers and business partners to develop new requirements and specifications as requested. Adhere to Security and quality standards develop test plans and oversee unit testing and pilots as required. Ensure deliverables are completed on time and within budget. Recommend document and update long-term strategy for hardwaresoftware supporting Product OwnersManagers and business partners. Develop proposals identify costs and propose release schedules.•Provide day to day support including troubleshooting existing technology services and applications to isolate and resolve technical issues.•Partner with Product Owners to shape and prioritize the technical backlog ensuring architectural dependencies technical debt and platform improvements are properly represented and sequenced.•Review and analyze existing solutions making proactive recommendations for enhanced performance security and usability. Implement recommendations with management approval.•Ensure architecture documentation decision records and system designs are maintained accessible and consistently applied across teams to support transparency onboarding and long-term maintainability.Digital Transformation•Define execute and manage the web applications roadmap ensuring all products are designed with a customer-centric mindset•Design implement maintain web applications with close collaboration and alignment with ITT platform partners.•Ensure End-to-End IT capabilities are aligned to achieve specifics business goals. Translate business and product strategies into actionable application architecture designs ensuring that platform capabilities directly support customer journey optimization revenue growth and operational efficiency.•Partner closely with product business and IT leaders across relevant business units to define optimal products and digital customer experience Daimler Digital House Daimler HQ Research & Development Mercedes-Benz Financial Services and external agency partnersvendors.•Translate business and product strategies into actionable application architecture designs ensuring that platform capabilities directly support customer journey optimization revenue growth and operational efficiency.•Own the multi year architecture roadmap for DCX platforms CMS eCommerce 1CU integrations. Ensure alignment betweenoProduct roadmapsoPlatform roadmapsoTechnical debt reductionoSecurity and compliance initiativesCompliance and information security•Be compliant with IT controls for the required products. Ensure planning implementation and appropriate controls in place to meet information security requirements and tasks.•Provide constructive ideas and suggestions to Product Owners and Managers.•This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and the position may be required to perform other duties as assigned Qualifikationen QualificationsEducationUniversity degree or above in Computer Engineering Computer Science or equivalent.Knowledge Skills & AbilitiesMinimum 10 years of professional experience in information technology field with focus on business applications using agile working methods.Experiences in Enterprise Architecture and Data ManagementExperienced in multi-national company or multi-cultural environmentExperience withExceptionally good communication skillsLead the evolution and direction of the Digital Customer Experience web applications & services that are supported by the MB RIDE cloud platform while also taking special consideration to improving security and operations of the web appsservices.Participate and lead executive level decision making meetings and workshops as lead digital platforms architectDesign and implement increased security processes and automation in Digital Customer Experience applications through code and scripting which results in increased compliance with DIS-FHigh analytic and strategic thinkingIndependent working attitudeExperience in software designing maintenance and developmentHaving lead experience for a development project Onshore and Offshore modelHaving good experience working with Architects BSA and Client Managers.Having good experience in working on time critical deliverables using Agile Methodology.Experienced with Jenkins methodologies includes CI Continuous Integration and CD Continuous Deployment.Exceptional ability to master new technologies and deliver outputs in short deadlines.Successfully delivered projects under strict schedules and following quality control.Technical SkillsBackend Technologies Frameworks Spring Hibernate JPAFrontend Technologies Frameworks JavaScript jQuery AJAX JSON SASS CSS3CMS Adobe Experience Manager AEMTelemetryMonitoring Splunk Grafana AppDynamics PrometheusDatabases MySQL PostgreSQLPlatform AWS S3 EC2 ECRBuild and Deployment Tools Maven Gradle Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Checkmarx SonarqubeProject Management Tool JIRAConfluenceSource code repository and Version Control GIT SVNOthers RESTEEO StatementMercedes-Benz USA is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of our team. We provide equal employment opportunity EEO to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race color ethnicity gender age national origin religion marital status veteran status physical or other disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.