Senior Lead, Software Engineer

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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‑class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

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

Toyota Financial Services’ Enterprise Tools Department is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Senior Lead, Software Engineer
. The primary responsibility of this role is to help build world‑class platform engineering capabilities for our development teams, with a strong focus on CI/CD pipelines and testing tools automation. In this role, you'll shape technology strategy, deliver scalable automation solutions, and improve the overall developer and employee experience through innovative, self‑service platforms. The ideal candidate comes with hands‑on experience designing and building an enterprise‑wide test automation platform(s).

In this role, you'll help create the tools, platforms, and automation that make it easier for engineering teams to build, test, and deliver high‑quality software at scale.

• Implement a strategic roadmap for technology initiatives within the CI/CD pipelines & Testing Tools Automation Platform Domains
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technology solutions that enhance employee experience
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve and innovate our technology offerings

• Drive initiatives to enable self‑service capabilities and automation across all supported technology areas
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual efforts, and increase efficiency through automation
• Champion the adoption of self‑service tools and platforms to empower employees to resolve issues independently

• Significant experience where you've designed, developed, and maintained cloud‑native platforms and services using AWS or other major cloud providers
• Strong proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Java, Python, Bash or Groovy to automate and customize CI/CD workflows
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience in Test‑Driven Development (TDD) approach for automation, ensuring platforms are developed with TDD principles by writing tests before implementing features
• Strong knowledge of multiple Test Automation Frameworks
  , tools, test reporting and analytics, with the ability to support quality at scale
• Deep understanding of diverse testing approaches, including AI Testing, UI Automation, Performance Testing and leveraging these in end‑to‑end test automation
• Experience with test parallelization and optimization techniques
• Hands‑on experience with mastery of CI/CD tools such as Harness, Jenkins, or Git Hub Actions
  , including configuration, customization, and integration capabilities
• Practical experience with Amazon Web Services such as EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, EC2, S3, and ELB

• Proficiency with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, and AWS Code Deploy for provisioning and managing CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience in seamlessly integrating containerization into CI/CD pipelines, including Docker image building, registry management, and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
  , Amazon ECS
  , AWS Fargate
  , including cluster setup, configuration, and…