# IT Application Solution Architect - Captive Finance

**Company**: American Honda Motor Company
**Location**: Torrance, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $105,800.00 - $132,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4744011

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## Description

We are seeking an IT Application Solution Architect - Captive Finance to join our team at American Honda Motor Company. The successful candidate will provide senior technical leadership for the design, development, integration, enhancement, and operational support of assigned CASS (Customer Accounting Service System) software applications supporting AHFC (American Honda Finance Corp) and HCFI (Honda Canada Finance, Inc.) business operations.

The IT Solution Architect – CASS Applications will lead assigned technical workstreams, develop solution designs and architecture artifacts, conduct design and code reviews, coordinate technical activities across internal and managed-service resources, and support production stability, release readiness, and continuous improvement.

Key accountabilities:

- Provide technical leadership for assigned CASS software application projects, enhancements, integrations, and production-support initiatives.

- Analyze business and technical requirements, recommend solution approaches, identify technical risks and dependencies, and coordinate implementation activities with internal teams, managed-service providers, and technology partners.

- Ensure recommended solutions align with approved architecture, security, data, infrastructure, and operational standards.

- Build productive working relationships with AHFC and HCFI business partners, CF-IT teams, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data, Cloud, managed-service providers, and other technology partners.

- Provide technical direction, coaching, mentoring, design guidance, and knowledge transfer to assigned associates, contingent workers, and managed-service resources.

- Lead assigned technical workstreams and support the delivery of projects and enhancements within approved scope, schedule, quality, architecture, security, and operational-readiness requirements.

- Provide technical oversight for the stability, performance, supportability, and recoverability of assigned CASS applications.

- Support incident management, problem management, root-cause analysis, release readiness, disaster-recovery activities, technical-debt remediation, and continuous service improvement.

Qualifications, experience, and skills:

- A Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science / Engineering / Information Technology, or a related STEM field of study.

- At least 5 to 7 years of overall IT enterprise application experience, out of which 5 or more years in solution/application architecture, technical leadership, or software development leadership.

- Proven ability to lead technical workstreams and coordinate delivery across internal teams, contingent resources, and managed-service providers.

- Strong experience designing enterprise solutions, developing architecture artifacts, conducting design/code reviews, and applying security, scalability, availability, performance, resilience, and disaster-recovery principles.

- Must have demonstrable working knowledge of .NET, SQL, Salesforce, ETL, IBM MQ, IBM App Connect Enterprise, APIs, cloud services, and integration platforms.

- Experience with application modernization, production support, incident/problem management, root-cause analysis, release management, monitoring, and technical-debt remediation.

- Strong communication, risk management, coaching, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to guide technical decisions and provide objective feedback to management.

Benefits:

- Competitive Base Salary

- Paid Overtime

- Regional Bonus (when applicable)

- Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)

- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown

- Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

- 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution

- Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment

- Lifestyle Account

- Childcare Reimbursement Account

- Elder Care Support

- Wellbeing Program

- Community Service and Engagement Programs

- Product Programs

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## Skills

### Required
- .NET
- SQL
- Salesforce
- ETL
- IBM MQ
- IBM App Connect Enterprise
- APIs
- cloud services
- integration platforms

### Nice to have
- Prior experience working in captive finance, preferably from the automotive sector
- banking / finance sector experience
- good understanding SOX and other compliance guidelines related to this area

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