Enterprise Architect - Supply Chain

About the role

The Enterprise Architect role involves contributing to global strategic initiatives and making technology decisions for both in-house and vendor solutions to modernize Ford’s Supply Chain.

Responsibilities

• Define business and technical architecture solutions to modernize Ford’s Supply Chain.
• Address diverse challenges in N-Tier supplier collaboration, transparency, sustainability, and risk management.
• Work with technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Pega, E2Open, and Resilinc.
• Identify key portfolio capabilities and map global system strategy.
• Make buy-vs-build decisions for vendors.
• Modernize Ford in-house applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Provide enterprise architectural services for Supply Chain Management products.
• Design and consult on solution architecture.
• Develop architectural Points of View for proposed initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with product teams and business partners.
• Formulate strategy and support product lines through interaction with the business community, PDO teams, and other architects.
• Conduct hands-on evaluation of current supply chain operations to design customer-centric solutions.
• Partner with Business Leads, Software Delivery Leads, Product Managers, and Software Engineers in system design and technology evaluation.
• Provide support for application functional, performance, and availability issues.
• Participate in vendor solution evaluation processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience as an business and/or solution architect.
• Strong curiosity about technology and a self-starter attitude.
• Ability to conduct self-directed research and analysis.
• Team player with collaboration skills and knowledge-sharing mindset.
• Independent problem solver.
• Willingness to engage with business customers, PDO team members, ITO, and others.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Desire to become a well-rounded architect.
• Prior architectural experience is an asset but not a requirement.
• Experience with microservice architecture, REST APIs, and distributed cloud systems.
• Previous experience as a software developer/engineer.
• Experience with multi-team, large-scale projects and incorporating all levels of architecture development (Business, Solution, Application, Infrastructure).
• Good understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Negotiation skills and ability to work with diverse stakeholders and customers.

Skills

• Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes/Serverless hosting, Cloud SQL & NoSQL Databases.
• Vendor SaaS evaluations and management.
• Microservice architecture and REST APIs.
• Agile development methodologies.

Benefits

Note: This role requires deep immersion in current supply chain operations to design solutions that meet sustainability and risk management objectives. You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary

This position is a salary grade 8. This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

Please note: This is a hybrid role, you are expected to relocate if you are not within commutable distance, and responsible to be onsite 4 days per week

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