About the role

Partner Solution Architect serving as the liaison between GM and technology partners. Designing scalable solutions for GM’s software-defined vehicles and digital experience ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary technical point of contact for selected strategic technology partners across 2P and 3P partnerships.
Collaborate with business, product, operations, and engineering teams to develop and execute the product roadmap for partner-enabled experiences.
Assess partner requirements, roadmaps, and technical capabilities to inform business and operational decisions (e.g., scope, sequencing, SLAs, risk).
Represent GM’s architectural principles, constraints, and standards in partner technical forums, workshops, and design reviews.
Work closely and proactively with technology partners and internal teams to deliver results and continuously improve processes for launching new products and services.
Lead end-to-end solution design for partner-integrated capabilities across vehicle, mobile, cloud, and enterprise systems.
Provide technical expertise to inform integration solutions for complex problems with partners and internal stakeholders, balancing customer experience, technical feasibility, and long-term maintainability.
Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and data flows (APIs, events, identity/consent, telemetry) that can be reused across teams and partner engagements.
Ensure solutions meet GM’s requirements for security, privacy, safety, reliability, performance, and compliance.
Act as the bridge between business development and engineering, turning partner concepts and agreements into actionable technical designs and roadmaps.

7+ years of experience in solution architecture, systems design, or technical leadership across complex, distributed systems.
Strong hands-on background with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern integration patterns (APIs, event streaming, messaging).
Demonstrated experience designing and delivering cross-company or partner-integrated solutions (e.g., platform partnerships, OEM/partner integrations, large enterprise customers).
Solid understanding of security, identity & access management, data privacy/consent, and reliability considerations in large-scale systems.
Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, concise way to non-technical stakeholders (business development, legal, finance).
Track record of driving cross-functional alignment and navigating ambiguity to reach pragmatic technical decisions.

GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs.
Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.