Modern wire harness systems and exclusive vehicle interiors: The name DRAEXLMAIER stands for automotive innovations – products that enhance your driving experience. Every day, approximately 75,000 associates around the world cooperate to contribute their knowledge, skills and automotive passion toward this goal. Individuals, who like to take on responsibilities, use their creativity and contribute their ideas toward the common success. Individuals like you!

In order to support our Regional Electronics Development Center in Gliwice, we are looking for a Software Architect who can meet the challenges of the international market with openness, flexibility and enthusiasm. Use this chance and join our success!

Future responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand, gather, and document software requirements for embedded solutions in the automotive domain, including functional, non-functional, and regulatory requirements.
• Software architecture design: Design and develop the high-level software architecture for the embedded solution, ensuring that it meets the identified requirements and is aligned with the company's overall architectural vision.
• Software component design: Design and specify software components and their interfaces, ensuring that they are modular, reusable, and easy to integrate.
• Performance optimization: Analyze the performance of the embedded solution and recommend architectural improvements to ensure that it meets the required performance criteria.
• Team collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including hardware engineers, software engineers, product managers, and quality assurance specialists, to ensure seamless integration of software components and successful product development.
• Technical leadership: Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to the software development team, helping them to make informed design and implementation decisions.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of the software architecture, design decisions, and any changes made during the development process, ensuring that it is up-to-date and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
• Prototyping and proof-of-concept development: Develop and validate prototypes or proof-of-concept implementations of critical software components to validate architectural decisions and mitigate risks early in the development process.
• Risk management: Identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks and issues related to the software architecture, including those related to technology, integration, performance, and security.
• Stakeholder communication: Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and the rationale behind them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring that everyone involved has a clear understanding of the software's design and its implications.

Candidate profile:

• Approximately 2-3 years of Software Architecture related experience
• University degree in Electronics/Automation/Telecommunication or related - nice to have
• Knowledge of automotive project planning and execution
• Communication in Business English will not be a challenge.

Our offer:

• Career in the company that is a global automotive industry leader
• Interesting work in an international environment
• Clear development path, including leader positions
• Professional development e.g. language course (English and German)
• Family-oriented, friendly work environment
• Flexible working time models and home office
• Comprehensive employee benefits package (wealthiest on the local market)

This position is placed in hybrid work model (80% remote work limit, 20% stationary work) in Gliwice, Poland (EU). Additional work-permit & visa documentation is required for foreign candidates outside the EU.