Supply Chain Enterprise Architect

Role Overview

• Define and implement comprehensive business and technical architecture solutions to modernize Ford's Supply Chain, aligning with strategic business goals and objectives.
• Address diverse challenges in supplier collaboration, transparency, sustainability, and risk management through innovative architectural designs.
• Provide enterprise architectural services for Supply Chain Management products, including consulting on solution architecture and developing architectural Points of View for proposed initiatives.
• Conduct hands-on evaluation of current supply chain operations to design customer-centric solutions and guide product teams in building best-in-class software development.
• Partner closely with Business Leads, Software Delivery Leads, Product Managers, and Software Engineers in system design and technology evaluation.
• Lead the strategic design, architecture, and implementation of enterprise data solutions, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals, and defining data governance policies and frameworks.
• Design and build scalable, high-performance Business Intelligence solutions, leveraging advanced data modeling concepts and techniques.
• Architect end-to-end data pipelines and robust data integration frameworks to enable seamless flow of structured and unstructured data from multiple sources (cloud and on-premise).
• Set the technical direction and implementation strategy for high-quality cloud solutions, focusing on overarching cloud strategy, industry trends, and tool adoption.
• Modernize Ford's in-house applications by migrating them to cloud platforms, with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Evaluate vendors and make informed buy-vs-build decisions, identifying key portfolio capabilities and mapping global system strategy.
• Advocate for agile methodologies and ensure the implementation of DevOps and software craftsmanship practices like Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) tools.
• Ensure architectures are secure, compliant, and scalable to support global supply chain operations and future business growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in architecture, technology, and software functions, with a significant focus on Supply Chain Management.
• 2+ years as an Enterprise or Solution Architect in a large, complex organization. This should also include:
• Experience with multi-team, large-scale projects and incorporating all levels of architecture development (Business, Solution, Application, Infrastructure).
• Highly proficient in data modeling, database design, and data architecture principles.
• Extensive knowledge and practical experience with various integration patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, REST APIs, distributed cloud systems) to create robust and performing integrated systems.
• 5+ years of supply chain business knowledge, including operations, demand planning, logistics, and procurement best practices.
• 3+ years of cloud knowledge and hands-on experience with cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure, with deep expertise in GCP preferred.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud deployment, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and architecting highly available, scalable, global solutions.
• 2+ years of experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Microservices

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.