Who are we?
Oxa is enabling the transition to self-driving vehicles through an initial focus on the most commercially advanced sector; the autonomous shuttling of goods and people.We are home to some of the world’s leading experts on autonomous vehicles, creating solutions such as Oxa Driver, equipping vehicles with full self-driving functionality; Oxa MetaDriver, using Generative AI to accelerate and assure the safety of deployments; and Oxa Hub, a set of cloud-based offerings for autonomous fleet management. Our technology is being deployed across the UK and the U.S, and we’re partnering with a fast-growing ecosystem of operators, vehicle OEMs and equipment makers serving autonomous transportation globally as it advances.
Based in Oxford, and with offices in Canada and the U.S, Oxa was founded in 2014 and is growing rapidly (350+ ‘Oxbots’ to date). Our purpose is to change the way the Earth moves, through an uncompromising focus on safety, efficiency and explainability of our AI approaches. The company has attracted $225 million from leading investors so far, with $140 million raised in the last Series C funding round in January 2023.
Your role:
Our Principal Solution Architect will design, create and deliver roadmaps for Corporate IT, focusing on the development and implementation of complex software systems at Oxa. They will operate across a multi-platform system, leading complex troubleshooting of urgent, enterprise-wide technical platforms. The Architect will have the ability to broaden IT offerings and solutions for the wider business, frequently laying out and manipulating communications, security and network storage.
Your responsibilities:
- Creating and delivering roadmaps for corporate IT, including technology, process and data, including 'as is', 'to be' and transitional states.
- Evaluating systems and processes and suggesting improvements.
- Own the vision, strategy and roadmaps from a technology and data perspective, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states.
- Identifying priorities for change to enable delivery at pace.
- Able to make things happen and be able to deliver results
Requirements
What you need to succeed:
- Able to communicate effectively across organisational and technical boundaries making complex and technical information and language simple and understanding for non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to help teams maintain a focus on delivery.
- Ability to look beyond the immediate problem and identify the wider implications including how the current work fits with broader context and strategy.
- Experience modernising corporate systems of record such as HR, Finance and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
- Experience leading Corporate IT projects, ensuring that subject matter experts are able to focus on their area of expertise, whilst providing oversight and challenge.
- Similar experience working within a high-growth technology company.
- Able to operate within a hands on environment at pace.
- Proven experience creating and improving processes and procedures with measurable results.
- Previously held one of the following job titles Enterprise Architect, IT Architect, Solutions Architect.
Benefits
We provide:
- Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
- Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
- An outstanding £3,000 flexible benefits including private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, EAP, group income protection
- A salary exchange pension plan
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
- A pet-friendly office environment
- Safe assigned spaces for team members with individual and diverse needs
Our Culture:
We promote an open and inclusive culture that empowers our Oxbots to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day. Oxa is proud to be an inclusive organisation and, as such, we require all team members within our recruitment process to understand and deploy best practices focused on de-biasing the whole recruitment cycle.We also apply a neuro inclusive lens to our recruitment process and want each potential Oxbot to enjoy the best experience possible for them. Please share with us any individual needs or reasonable adjustments we may need to make in advance of commencing the interview process with us.
Learn more about our culture here.
Why become an Oxbot?
Our team of experts in computer science, AI, robotics and machine learning is world-class, and together they’re solving the most exciting and important technological challenges of our times.
But as well as smarts, Oxbots have heart. Our diverse, multi-cultural crew is guided by a shared vision to bring the myriad benefits of autonomy to our customers and partners. And in a company that celebrates uniqueness as much as skill and experience, they do it with energy, conviction and a healthy dose of excitement, too.
If you are bold, creative and hyper skilled, come and create the future of autonomy with us at Oxa.
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