Software Architect (Java) Backend

About the Company
Embitel Technologies is a Volkswagen AG (VW) Group Company. VW is a German multinational automotive manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. VW is one of the world’s largest automaker by sales. VW sold 10.9 million vehicles in 2019. The group comprises of 12 brands from seven European Countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti, Bentley, Ducati (motorcycles), Skoda, SEAT, Scania, MAN and Volkswagen commercial vehicles.

About CARIAD (Car, I Am Digital)

The automotive industry is in disruption. As a company, CARIAD is playing a part in multiple large trends at the same time: electrification, automation, and digitalization. The new name builds on changing customer needs. Automotive customers are demanding more comfort, more safety, more sustainability, and more connectivity. With its software platforms and digital features, CARIAD is developing solutions and products that will turn the car into a smart companion to accompany customers into the future with continuous updates and new digital features, even years later. The new company name reflects this zeitgeist: ‘Car, I Am Digital’. The brand profile can be found on its new website https://cariad.technology.

Currently, around 4,000 employees are working at CARIAD on the digital transformation of the car. CARIAD is working intensively on the software and technology platform for Premium Platform Electric (PPE). The first vehicles based on PPE will be the electric Porsche Macan and Audi Q6 e-tron. At the core of CARIAD is the development of the unified and scalable software and technology platform E³ 2.0 for all Group brands. E³ stands for ‘end to end electronics architecture’. The new software and technology platform is built from scratch and will be used first at the end of 2024 in Artemis, the lighthouse project of Audi. As of 2026, E³ 2.0 is due to be scaled by the Volkswagen brand with Trinity in the volume segment.

About our Group

CARIAD COE (Centre of Excellence) is setup in Bangalore, India working exclusively with CARIAD and associated VW groups with the focus on development of ‘VW.OS”. The areas of work involve development of platform components such as firmware, boot loaders, AUTOSAR, Linux/QNX BSP, Service oriented architecture-based middleware components.

Job Description:

Software Architect (Java) Backend / Remote Update Technology

Experience: 15+ years

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Software Architect to define, lead, and evolve the architecture of our Online Remote Update Technology platform. The role focuses on designing scalable, secure, observable, and maintainable backend systems, ensuring architectural consistency across teams, and driving long-term technical strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Define and maintain the end-to-end system architecture and service boundaries. Lead architecture decisions, create ADRs, and ensure adoption of best practices.

Design API contracts, event schemas, and ensure backward compatibility.

- Create and maintain C4 Architecture Models.

- Ensure performance, resilience, scalability, security, and observability.

- Drive security architecture including OAuth2/OIDC and secret management.

- Support CI/CD pipeline strategy and deployment models.

- Lead architecture spikes and technical evaluations.

- Guide developers via design reviews and technical mentorship.

- Collaborate with product owners to shape architectural roadmaps.

- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.

Technical Expertise

Should also be an developer initially with hands on & Thrived as an architect

Microservices architecture, distributed systems, domain decomposition.

Java / J2EE, Spring Boot, REST, async/event-driven design.

Apache Kafka, HiveMQ/MQTT.

Microsoft Azure cloud services.

SQL schema design, JPA/Hibernate, Spring Data, jOOQ (optional).

Docker, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing.

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana for observability.

OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, secure design, compliance-driven mindset.

Competencies & Soft Skills

Ability to design and evaluate complex distributed architectures.

Strong documentation skills (ADRs, architecture guidelines, API specs).

Understanding of software lifecycle and governance.

Excellent communication; ability to simplify complex topics.

High ownership, proactive attitude, strong collaboration.

Ability to mentor engineers and influence without authority.

Excellent English communication.

Working with Embitel
• Freedom to challenge norms, make mistakes, learn and grow
• There is no ‘I’ in word ‘Team’ and no hierarchy at Embitel
• Employees of Embitel are partners of our excellence and growth. And they are at the core of
organization’s Mission and Vision

To explore an exciting & progressive Career development at Embitel India:
• Visit us at: www.embitel.com
• Follow us at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/embitel-technologies-india