Principal, Enterprise Technology Architect

About Us

Mercedes-Benz USA, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is responsible for the sales, marketing, and service of Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States. Our people demonstrate a strong commitment to our corporate values, customer experience, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. We are looking for diverse, top-notch individuals to join the Mercedes-Benz team and uphold these hallmarks.

Mercedes-Benz USA, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is responsible for the sales, marketing, and service of Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States. Our people demonstrate a strong commitment to our corporate values, customer experience, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. We are looking for diverse, top-notch individuals to join the Mercedes-Benz team and uphold these hallmarks.

The Enterprise Technology Architect owns the technology foundation of Code Craft, the NAFTA shared engineering platform — the runtime, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and security controls that application teams across the region build on. Where the Enterprise Solution Architect defines what is built and why, the Enterprise Technology Architect defines the technology stack and platform capabilities that make it real: the EKS-based cloud-native runtime, infrastructure as code and Git Ops delivery, the Code Craft common libraries, Gradle plugins and managed dependency baseline (BOM), the Code Craft CLI/forge developer tooling, the API gateway and centralized configuration, observability, and the Dev Sec Ops  controls that keep it compliant.

The role is accountable for the technical currency, reliability, and cost efficiency of the platform across a ~40-repository ecosystem — runtime and dependency version baselines, container and Kubernetes patterns, vulnerability and license remediation cadence — and for the automation, increasingly agentic, that sustains it without manual toil.

Code Craft serves multiple NAFTA entities. The Enterprise Technology Architect works across Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA), Mercedes-Benz Financial Services (MBFS), and other NAFTA entities, designing platform capabilities that accommodate differing regulatory, data-residency, cloud-account, and isolation requirements from a shared core rather than entity-specific forks.

This is a hands-on architecture role: expect to prototype, review Terraform and platform code, and pair with engineers, alongside producing designs and standards.

• Own the Code Craft technology reference stack: JVM and Node runtimes, container and Kubernetes (EKS) patterns, ingress/service mesh, caching, messaging (Kafka), and data-access patterns.
• Architect the cloud-native runtime and its delivery model — Helm charts, Git Ops (ArgoCD), environment topology, and multi-account/multi-entity segregation for MBUSA, MBFS, and other NAFTA entities.
• Own infrastructure as code architecture:
  Terraform/Terragrunt module design, state and environment layout, drift detection, and reusable infrastructure building blocks consumed by entity teams.
• Own the technical design of Code Craft's shared engineering assets: common
  - * libraries, Gradle plugins, versions BOM and dependency baselines, API gateway, config-server, and the Code Craft CLI/forge developer tooling.
• Define developer golden paths — project templates, scaffolding, and platform SDKs — so the compliant path is the easiest path for teams in every entity.
• Architect the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, SLOs) and drive platform reliability, capacity, and cloud cost engineering.

• Embed security into the platform by design: container image…