Enterprise Architect - Supply Chain

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 include defining business and technical architecture solutions, addressing challenges in N-Tier supplier collaboration, transparency, sustainability, and risk management. The role will work with technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Pega, E2Open, and Resilinc, identify key portfolio capabilities, map global system strategy, evaluate vendors, and make buy-vs-build decisions. This role will also 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, and collaborate closely with product teams and business partners. The architect will formulate strategy and support product lines through interaction with the business community, PDO teams, and other architects, and conduct hands-on evaluation of current supply chain operations to design customer-centric solutions. This role partners with Business Leads, Software Delivery Leads, Product Managers, and Software Engineers in system design and technology evaluation, and provides support for application functional, performance, and availability issues. Participation in vendor solution evaluation processes is also a key responsibility.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes/Serverless hosting, Cloud SQL & NoSQL Databases.
• Vendor SaaS evaluations and management.
• Microservice architecture and REST APIs.
• Agile development methodologies.
• Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Prior architectural experience is an asset but not a requirement.

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.
• Deliver Business, Information and Solution Architectures.
• Understand Business Goals and Objectives.
• Conduct Stakeholder Analysis.
• Develop Business Capability Models.
• Map Business Processes.
• Align IT and Business Strategies.
• Create Business Architecture Documentation.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior