Ford Motor Company

Enterprise Architect - Supply Chain

Ford Motor Company • $99K — $166K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
  • 3+ years as a business and/or solution architect.
  • Strong curiosity about technology with a self-starter attitude.
  • Experience with microservice architecture, REST APIs, and distributed cloud systems.
  • Good understanding of Agile development methodologies.
  • Strong presentation skills and ability to collaborate effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Define business and technical architecture solutions for Ford's Supply Chain.
  • Address challenges related to supplier collaboration and sustainability.
  • Work with technologies including Google Cloud Platform and Pega.
  • Evaluate vendors and make strategic decisions about technology solutions.
  • Develop architectural Points of View for various initiatives.
  • Conduct evaluations of current supply chain operations to design innovative solutions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure solution coherence.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment, requiring onsite presence 4 days a week.
  • Opportunity for self-directed research and professional development.
  • Engagement in high-impact global strategic initiatives.
  • Access to a diverse range of technologies and architectural practices.
  • Participation in large-scale, multi-team projects.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.
  • Evaluate vendors and make buy-vs-build decisions.
  • 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.

Critical Functional Tasks

Deliver Business, Information and Solution Architectures

Business Architecture
  • Understand Business Goals and Objectives
  • Conduct Stakeholder Analysis
  • Develop Business Capability Models:
  • Map Business Processes
  • Align IT and Business Strategies
  • Create Business Architecture Documentation


Information Architecture
  • Assess current data sources, types, and how data will be consumed for the solutions.
  • Design Information Models
  • Create conceptual, logical, and physical data models that represent the organization's data structures and relationships.
  • Design and propose solutions for integrating data from disparate systems to create a unified view of information.
  • Document Information Architecture


Solution Architecture
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements for the solution.
  • Evaluate Technology Options: Research and assess various technology solutions and platforms that can meet the identified requirements.
  • Create high-level architectural designs that outline the components, interfaces, and interactions within the solution.
  • Ensure Alignment with Standards:
  • Develop Prototypes or Proofs of Concept
  • Document Solution Architecture


Work closely with development teams to ensure that the solution is implemented according to the architecture, providing guidance and support as needed.

Qualifications

Position 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.


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


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 *

*Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this role*

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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