Senior Solution Architect (Data Products & Commercial Platforms)

Join Toyota Connected Europe (TCEU) as a Senior Solution Architect, where you will play a key role in shaping the architecture and evolution of API-enabled data products and commercial platforms. You will partner closely with product, business, and engineering leaders to evaluate new commercial propositions, develop target-state architectures, and create business architecture models. This strategic role requires a broad view across business capability, product strategy, and technology architecture, with a primary focus on customer value, commercial outcomes, and long-term business capability.

Definir cómo las capacidades de datos de vehículos conectados crean valor, cómo deben ser productizadas y cómo pueden evolucionar de conceptos iniciales a servicios sostenibles.

Ser responsable de la dirección arquitectónica para un dominio empresarial definido, colaborando estrechamente con líderes de producto, negocio e ingeniería.

About Toyota Connected

Awareness of how modern AI, machine learning and generative AI capabilities can responsibly enable new data products, improve customer experiences, support operational efficiency and create commercial opportunities

Responsibilities

• Desarrollar arquitecturas de estado objetivo, hojas de ruta de capacidades y planes de transición que aborden consideraciones de procesos comerciales, datos, sistemas y modelos operativos.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguous business ideas, using evidence, customer insight and business objectives to define clear options, recommendations, transition steps and architecture decisions that product and engineering teams can act on
• Enough technical depth to work confidently with engineering teams and guide solution direction across APIs, data flows, event-driven architecture, cloud services, security, scalability, resilience and cost, while connecting those choices to business value
• Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns, API management, data platforms, cloud-native architectures and secure-by-design practices
• Experience defining reusable architecture patterns, decision records, reference models or governance approaches that help teams make better decisions at scale
• Understanding of data product disciplines such as data quality, lineage, data governance, anonymisation and privacy-preserving approaches, and how they influence the commercial viability and responsible use of data products
• Experience with API product management practices such as versioning, lifecycle management, deprecation, service levels, developer experience and partner onboarding

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Business Architect or Domain Architect working on complex digital platforms, data products or commercial services
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively, invite alternative viewpoints and help stakeholders make evidence-based decisions in complex and ambiguous situations
• Experience defining strategy, operating models, capability roadmaps or commercial architecture for a product, platform or business domain, not only producing implementation-level solution designs
• Experience in at least one relevant commercial platform domain, such as API monetisation, data products, product catalogue, order management, subscription management, order orchestration, marketplaces, finance, telecoms or eCommerce
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect architecture decisions to customer value, commercial outcomes, regulatory obligations and long-term business capability development
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain business and technical ideas clearly to senior leaders, product teams, architects and engineers
• Experience using business architecture techniques such as capability modelling, value streams, customer journeys or operating-model analysis to connect strategy with technology change
• Demonstrated experience taking products, platforms or services from concept through implementation and operation, not only defining strategies, recommendations or high-level designs
• Knowledge of CRM, consent management, customer identity, data commercialisation, API productisation, partner ecosystems or regulatory compliance in data-driven services

Preferred

• Experience with subscription products, marketplace platforms, digital commerce, payments, mobility services or other regulated digital ecosystems
• Understanding of TM Forum, TOGAF, BIAN or similar industry frameworks would be advantageous, especially where applied pragmatically rather than followed mechanically