Wejo is a leader in the connected car market and is shaping the future of mobility. The connected car space is one of the fastest growing sectors in the internet of things industry. Car manufacturers are looking to extend traditional infotainment systems, insurers are seeking a better understanding of risk, users are demanding more feedback and firms are generating increasing amounts of data and require support in understanding its applications and value. We specialise in creating new services and products to help clients make the most of their data and realise its value

We bring together the brightest minds and industry experts with award-winning platform technology and advanced privacy and security to revolutionise the way we live, work and travel using connected car data, insights and analytics.

At Wejo our values drive our culture, shape our interactions and help us to achieve our goals. These values are turned into meaningful behaviours and embody our employees. We are bold, collaborative and responsible.

Role Summary

The architecture team is here to ensure the wejo platform continues to grow in a scalable manner, working with the business to understand their needs and to ensure those needs transition to working software in the platform. wejo employs a range of “big data” technologies (streaming and batch) and architects are expected to be hands-on experts in their subject areas.

The role of the Solution Architect is to work within the architecture team to ensure the Wejo platform continues to grow in a scalable manner.

The Solutions Architect will work with the business to understand their needs and to ensure those needs transition to working software in the platform. Wejo employ a range of “big data” technologies (streaming and batch) and architects are expected to be hands experts in their subject areas.

Key Responsibilities – what I do mostly

• Engineering the Company data platforms for scale, performance, reliability and security.
• Work with other members of the architecture team to design and build big data capabilities.
• Comfortable with client facing work including some international travel.
• Work with the delivery teams to design and implement data processing pipelines, associated data and database structures and fine tune performance to meet those requirements.
• Work with Infrastructure and DevOps teams to release and maintain live products.
• Participate in establishing processes and best practices around development standards.
• Own the NFRs for a given product area.
• Own the architecture roadmap for a given product area.
• Work with the rest of the team to govern architecture across the organisation.
• Ensuring a professional image of the company and themselves is presented at all times

Other Responsibilities – what I will be doing sometimes

• Using my expertise and knowledge to help in areas of the business that need support to get the job done, whatever that might be.

Essential Skills / Knowledge & Experience – what I need to do the job

• Experience of a range of technologies and technology patterns at scale
• Good communication skills
• Recent hands on development experience
• Experience of designing distributed systems deployed to cloud computing environments
• Experience of open source technologies for big data processing such as Apache Spark, Hadoop and Kafka.

Desirable – What can help me succeed

• Experience of designing distributed systems deployed to cloud computing environments
• Experience of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS or Azure
• Experience of open source technologies for big data processing such as Apache Spark, Kafka and Kafka Streams.
• Experience in programming in any of the following: Java, Scala or Python.
• Experience with configuration management process.
• Experience working with an Agile Tracking Tool (e.g. Jira, Rally).
• Experience managing data ingestion and processing operations
• Background in data engineering and associated software development life cycles & service delivery

Equal Opportunity Employer: Wejo is an equal opportunity employer, committed to our diversity and inclusiveness. We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age. We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA community, people with disabilities and veterans to apply. We are actively working to be an anti-racist organization. We're committing to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace for all of our employees. You can read more about our commitment to DEI here.