Solution​/Application Architect-Gen AI focused

Overview

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like  one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow.

with us.

An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company— delivering on Toyota s vision to move people beyond what s possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

Please note: To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.

We are seeking a senior Solution/Application Architect with broad full-stack and cloud expertise to design and deliver end-to-end, cloud-native systems. This role translates business outcomes into actionable architectures and working software across the full lifecycle, spanning web and services, APIs, data and databases, event streaming, observability, and platform capabilities such as CI/CD, IaC, and developer productivity tooling. The architect will be hands-on, collaborating with product and engineering to produce clear designs and specifications, and will guide portfolio-level standards and tradeoffs in distributed systems and modern front-end/back-end stacks.

A significant focus will be on generative AI—architecting and implementing AI-enabled applications, agents, and platform integrations, including model selection, retrieval patterns, safety and guardrails, and cost/performance optimization.

• Design end-to-end, cloud-native solutions using microservices, event-driven, and streaming architectures for modular, decoupled systems.
• Partner with other architects, product, and delivery teams to translate business needs into timely, practical solutions.
• Elevate non-functional qualities: scalability, performance, availability, reliability, maintainability, and reusability.
• Be a hands-on coder to build proof of concept, evaluate emerging technologies, and validate architecture decisions.
• Produce clear, current architectural documentation to maintain system integrity and enable knowledge sharing.
• Define and implement reusable patterns and assets (reference architectures, libraries, frameworks) and promote their adoption.

• Experience Tenure: 12+ years in software engineering with a track record of delivering high-impact products on time.
• Architecture Leadership: 3+ years as an Application/Solutions Architect delivering enterprise-scale, cloud-native solutions (AWS preferred).
• Language Expertise:
  Proven experience building reusable components and shared libraries in Java, Python, and JavaScript.
• Architecture Depth:
  Deep understanding of microservices, cloud computing, and non-functional architecture concerns.
• Security & Dev Sec Ops :
  Strong grasp of Info Sec and Dev Sec Ops  on AWS; relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate) highly desirable.
• GenAI Proficiency:
  Designing and implementing AI-enabled applications and platforms, including model selection, prompt/retrieval patterns (RAG), guardrails/safety, evaluation/monitoring, and cost-performance optimization.
• AI Coding Tools:
  Practical experience with AI-based developer tools and workflows—e.g., Git Hub Copilot, vibe coding, spec-driven development, and AI-assisted code generation/validation—to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
• Education Preferred: A college degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A strong software developer background with several years of Java or Python development
• AWS Architecture:
  Expert in leveraging all things AWS to build full stack…