Tekion

Principal Solutions Architect, Enterprise

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Bangalore, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Senior level

Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Retail • Software

The Role

The Principal Solutions Architect will provide consulting services to OEMs and Dealers, design solutions to meet OEM needs, and integrate data services. Responsibilities include delivering analytics, presenting solution strategies, and collaborating effectively with OEM teams while maintaining an understanding of dealership operations and the automotive industry.

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About Tekion:

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.

Key Responsibilities

Provide consulting services regarding problems based on understanding problem OEM problem between OEM and Dealer
Provide design meeting OEM needs from Tier 1 to Tier 3 experience
Data services for OEMs to connect OEM and Dealer data
Analytics and Insights for OEMs that solve business needs and use cases.
Solutions Architecture across Data and Platform and Integrations with OEM platforms
Ability to present AEC as a solution, especially with Dealer Systems, understands dealership operations and business challenges
Great listening skills with a curious mind; soft skills with OEMs; ability to work with difficult people who do not share vision with Tekion or broader automotive market (e.g. old school thinking)
Capability to work with OEMs; ability to ask specific questions to better understand their business
Understands automotive industry, and specifically excellent understanding of Dealer Retail business from a Software perspective (Digital Retail, Online Chat, Negotiations, F&I, Desking, CRM,
Brainstorm and collaborate solutions with OEMs and bring OEM teams together to agree upon a mutually beneficial solution
Document solutions via Confluence, Workflows, Diagrams connecting services
Research tools with Dealers and Online to understand potentially how things can work together
Understands data or can learn about data feeds with 3rd Parties like HomeNet, vAuto, STAR data standards between DMS and OEMs, third party data providers.
Good problem solving skills; able to listen to OEM problem statement, and leverage knowledge of dealer business to provide solution
Stay up-to-date with Product Area
Ability to do product research / competitive analysis, provide feedback back to Product.
Work on creating prototypes with design team to bring vision to life
Can talk about APIs and Data

Skills and Experience

- Dealership operations & Automotive background
- 5+ years of experience as Solutions Architect or Lead Product Manager
- Must have experience in the following areas:
  - Digital retail experience / Retail
  - Inventory / data feeds
  - Website Platforms
  - Desking / F&I solutions
- Understand the challenges OEMs will face working with Dealers and how to provide superior program outcomes and customer set.
- Understanding of Technology works and integrations workflow.
- Must be able to present solutions and effectively communicate with OEM’s.
- Knowledge of the entire purchasing process for buying online.
- Experience with Web platforms from the OEM Website from Tier 1 into Dealer Website Tier 3

Perks and Benefits

Competitive compensation
Generous stock options
Medical Insurance coverage
Work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful Companies

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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The Company

HQ: Pleasanton, CA

1,858 Employees

On-site Workplace

Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

At Tekion, we believe that business applications don’t have to be boring. In fact, they should be simple, fun and cool! They should be as delightful to use as your favorite social or consumer application, yet powerful enough to seamlessly and efficiently run global businesses that provide unparalleled consumer experience without compromise.

Founded by visionary entrepreneur and innovator Jay Vijayan, we are building the world’s best business applications on the cloud starting with the automotive retail industry. We inherently use cutting-edge technologies like big data, machine learning/AI, and human computer interaction (voice, touch, vision, sensors and IoT). We are inventing new technology along the way to overcome barriers and solve big problems, all while having a blast doing it!

Our flagship product offering, Automotive Retail Cloud ™- an industry-first cloud-native retail platform, including all functionalities of a Dealer Management System (DMS) launched recently.