Solution Architect

Role Overview

• Enterprise Architect shapes Ford Digitization journey, through strategic roadmaps and innovative technical solutions by leveraging Ford’s expertise and industry perspective across the enterprise.
• The core area to support is
• Global Order To Delivery / Order Fulfilment (Sales & Marketing)
• The work is global in scope which will give the opportunity to collaborate with business partners, architects, product owners, product managers, and product designers around the world. As well provides avenue to develop working relationships with Enterprise Architecture broader teams, product teams, skill team and management.

Requirements

• Bachelor/Master of Engineering in Comp Science or related stream
• Candidates should have 7+ year IT experience covering:
• 3+ year on related business/IT including progressive experience in the architecture or engineering space with hands on Business Analysis and/or Product Design & Management
• 4+ year Technical experience in application development and support
• Recent 2-3 years role as Product Anchor or Enterprise Architect
• Strong Business Acumen in*** end to end supply chain management of Vehicle Sales & Production Planning & Vehicle Order Fulfilment***, its associated business capabilities and solutions
• Certification: TOGAF / Any cloud Architecture
• Ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions Knowledge of EA Modelling tools
• Experience creating and using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect and aggregate business capabilities Expertise with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman
• Expertise in creating business flows, business capability mappings, Blueprints , E2E Landscape Views
• Work experience on data modelling tools and techniques
• Good knowledge / Hands-On development experience on multiple technologies (esp. Java/Cloud technologies esp. Angular/REACT, CloudSQL-PGSQL, Reporting tools) and patterns, related architecture including: Cloud hosting (GCP), APIs/micro services and integration of solutions
• The drive to follow an idea to its logical conclusion and ability to present to management in a clear and concise manner.
• Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Good exposure working on presentation/Data analysis tools like MS-Powerpoint/MS-Excel/Visio tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong team player, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Willingness to continuously learn, innovate and grow self and team is a MUST
• Willingness to be flexible and seek ideas/inputs from others and collaborate
• Strong communication & Presentation skills
• Able to work independently and collaborate
• Able to plan and prioritize
• Able to facilitate results-driven meetings
• Stakeholder relationship building
• Good at influencing people
• Being Agile and exposure using Agile tools /processes (Jira)
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Knowledge of Marketing & Sales systems and business processes
• Knowledge of Supply Chain Management
• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies (Google, AWS, Azure)

Tech Stack

• Angular
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Java
• React

Benefits

• Professional development opportunities