IT Lead Solution Architect - API Practice Location St. Louis - Brentwood, Richmond Heights, Clayton, Maplewood & central areas Category Technology - All Other Positions Job ID 2025-506708 Overview

Enterprise Mobility is the world’s largest car rental operator and an industry leader in mobility and technology. We’re one of the top global travel companies, ranking ahead of many airlines and most cruise lines and hotels. And no matter what transportation challenges our customers face, we have an innovative solution.

 

We operate the Enterprise Rent-A-Car National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands via more than 10,000 fully staffed neighborhood and airport offices, including franchisee branches, in over 90 countries and territories.

 

Through this robust global network, we operate a fleet of over 2.3 million vehicles and provide a comprehensive portfolio of transportation solutions, including car rental, carsharing, vanpooling, car sales, truck rental, vehicle-subscription and affiliated fleet management services. As a total mobility provider, we serve the needs of a wide variety of customers, businesses, government agencies and organizations every day.

 

At the center of it all, our dedicated IT teams innovate, design and develop the technology that is redefining how customers rent, buy and share vehicles from our family of brands. Here, you will be part of a diverse and talented team that creates and delivers powerful technology solutions for our customers and employees across the world with the resources and support to develop in a variety of career paths.

 

As an Enterprise Mobility team member, we offer an excellent package with market-competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, 401k matching & profit sharing, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.

 

This position offers the opportunity to work fully remote within the United States (except for Alaska and/or Hawaii). Team members who choose virtual / remote work should have an adequate space to serve as their home office, and must be able to work a schedule within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours. #LI-REMOTE

Responsibilities

The Lead Architect in the API Practice will work closely with solution teams across the organization, help promote a culture of an API first approach in solution design by coaching and guiding the solution engineering team. This individual will help design the APIs required for alignment with the guiding principles, best practices and standards laid out by EM. Through these efforts, the architect will contribute to the API marketplace and ensure a single version of the truth of business capabilities. The architect will also participate and contribute significantly to the goals of other workstreams of the Enterprise Mobility API Governance.

 

To be successful in this role, you will need to influence and partner with other technologists and leaders. You will need to foster relationships with engineers, architects, and people leaders to ensure we are developing cohesive and comprehensive solutions.

 

Additional Responsibilities:

Project Planning & Strategic Planning

May contribute to the development of strategic planning for the department and communicates clear, concise strategic visionAssists with project planning; provides technical leadership to project teams and/or leads project teams within own area/department and across functional teamsWorks on large, complex initiatives that address future concepts, products or technologies; analyzes and evaluates all variable factors and riskDefines, develops, communicates, and implements standards, processes, and procedures for the team or department

Building Relationships

Maintains effective relationships with all levels of company management, internal and external customers that promotes understanding and produces results for both parties

Innovation & Decision Making

Establishes and monitors key performance metrics to ensure compliance of established standards, processes, and proceduresAnalyzes, influences, and translates business requirements into architectural blueprints that align with overall technology vision. May contribute to the global architecture strategiesGathers and identifies solution needs; performs risk analysis, defines the architecture; acts as the ambassador to drive key stakeholder acceptanceDefines, creates and evaluates processes; identifies, recommends and influences strategic solutions; designs solutions using in-depth knowledge of business strategy, security, technologies and architectural methodsDefines the architectural considerations and collaborates with Engineers on the direction for the development of solutions or enhancements; may lead the discovery process. Maintains knowledge of emerging architectural methods and technologies for application to the environment

Leading & Inspiring

Listens to and evaluates customer needs to determine and provide high quality solutions that align with customer expectations; Identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures others are aligned with customer expectationsProvides guidance and oversight across multiple solutions to ensure that the technologies are secure, interoperate and connect appropriately and also support company vision and strategyActively coaches, mentors and teaches others; uses influence, expertise and leadership to support other teams as they implement solutions 

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

 

Qualifications

Required:

Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the futureMust reside in the United States (does not include Alaska or Hawaii) Must be able to work a schedule within U.S. Central Standard Time core business hours.8 or more years of relevant experience (designing and developing large scale applications) Experience with Open API and microservices design in a cloud environmentStrong knowledge of REST principlesExperience creating and delivering presentations to executive leaders with the ability to influence and defend business decisionsExperience mentoring and developing future technical leaders within the organizationProfessional experience identifying and gathering solution needs; performing risk analysis, defining architecture; acting and driving key stakeholder acceptanceExperience defining architectural considerations and collaborating with Engineers on the direction for the development of solutions or enhancementsExperience leading / guiding others through transformational architect changesAbility to communicate at all levels, build and foster relationships, including coaching and mentoring other architects, engineers, and business leadersProven ability to operate in a highly autonomous fashion, repeatedly exercises exceptional, independent judgment, balances strategic against tactical planning, delegates wherever possibleExperience developing, documenting and maintaining architectural blueprintsAbility to approach things with an agile and pragmatic response as it relates to critical thinking and shifting business prioritiesStay up to date on industry trends, products, applications, technical service, market conditions, and competitive activitiesProtects our customers, our employees, and our brands by incorporating security and compliance in all decisions; ensures security policy and procedure requirements are met; continuously identifies opportunities for improving security and implements strategies to improve our security posture

Preferred:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred1 or more years experience with eventing/event drive architectureExperience with Object Oriented design and modeling