Connected Car Architect Full Time

At Tata Technologies, we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering, and validating the products of tomorrow for the world’s leading manufacturers. Due to continued growth, we are recruiting for a Connected Car Architect role, based in Woking, UK.

THE ROLE

The Connected Car Architect supports the end to end technical strategy, architecture, and platform direction for all connected car systems. This role serves as a decision influencer for cloud and in vehicle connectivity architectures, ensuring alignment with business strategy, regulatory requirements, and long term technology roadmaps.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

1. Technical Leadership

• Act as the technical design lead for all connected car systems (cloud, telematics, connectivity).
• Support all architectural decisions and changes across cloud and embedded domains.
• Define and maintain the connected car on car architecture roadmap.
• Establish architectural principles, standards, and design patterns.
• Lead technology evaluation, supplier selection, and platform decision-making.

2. Architecture & Systems Design

• Support definition of reference architectures for cloud backends; account management, CRM, CDM and TSP etc
• Integrate emerging technologies (edge compute, AI agents) into future architecture.
• Ensure scalability, security, and performance of data pipelines and communication protocols.
• Lead technical reviews and support architecture gate processes.
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and architectural blueprints.

3. Strategic Management

• Assist in developing a 3 to 5year connected car architecture strategy and investment roadmap.
• Monitor competitive landscape and identify opportunities/threats.
• Support building business cases for major platform or architecture initiatives.
• Partner with senior leaders to align technology decisions with commercial priorities.

4. Governance & Compliance

• Participate in architecture boards and technical governance forums.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards.
• Assist in defining and manage change control processes.
• Drive technical risk management, mitigation, and technical debt reduction programmes.

In return for your expertise, we offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package, including:

-Pension scheme with up to 5% employer contribution

-25 days’ holiday

-Private healthcare

-Group income protection

-Employee Assistance Program

-Group life assurance

-Health cash plan

If you are passionate about innovation and want to join a global engineering company, this is the place for you.

Tata Technologies: Engineering a better world.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Applications will be reviewed against the role criteria. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days, your application has not been successful; however, your details may be retained for future opportunities.