Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect - (Data Center)

Ford Motor Company•Dearborn, MI

2d•$115,500 - $218,100•Hybrid

About The Position

We seek a highly motivated, technology-focused individual passionate about improving and simplifying Ford’s highly complex global infrastructure environment across Cloud Platform, on-premises data centers, and distributed locations in all major regions. This role demands a proven people leader who will directly manage, mentor, and elevate a high-performing team of Domain and Solution Architects. You will be responsible for fostering a culture of engineering excellence, establishing architectural governance, and driving the strategic vision of your team. As a recognized thought leader, you will codify your team’s innovations by publishing reusable architectural patterns and authoring authoritative white papers that influence both internal enterprise strategy and the broader technology community. The ideal candidate is a rare hybrid: a strategic people leader capable of defining multi-year technology roadmaps, a thought leader who shapes enterprise standards, and an elite engineer who can still roll up their sleeves to write advanced Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and build robust CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure deployment. You possess a profound, expert-level understanding of traditional datacenter operations, heterogeneous OS management (Windows and Linux), and hypervisor ecosystems. You are also tasked with looking toward the future, guiding our cloud migration strategies and laying the infrastructural groundwork for Next-Generation AI and MLOps workloads. If you are a proactive problem-solver who requires minimal direction and is passionate about driving infrastructural convergence while leading top-tier talent, we want you on our team. At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation. We believe that freedom of movement drives human progress. Ford Information Technology (IT) is shaping the future of mobility by redefining the transportation landscape, enhancing the customer experience and improving people’s lives. Join the Ford family as we change the way the world moves.

Requirements

Proven people leader.
Expert-level understanding of traditional datacenter operations.
Expert-level understanding of heterogeneous OS management (Windows and Linux).
Expert-level understanding of hypervisor ecosystems.
Ability to write advanced Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
Ability to build robust CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure deployment.
Proactive problem-solver who requires minimal direction.

Nice To Haves

Passion for improving and simplifying Ford’s highly complex global infrastructure environment across Cloud Platform, on-premises data centers, and distributed locations in all major regions.
Thought leader capable of defining multi-year technology roadmaps.
Thought leader who shapes enterprise standards.
Elite engineer.
Guidance on cloud migration strategies.
Laying the infrastructural groundwork for Next-Generation AI and MLOps workloads.

Responsibilities

Directly manage, mentor, and elevate a high-performing team of Domain and Solution Architects.
Foster a culture of engineering excellence.
Establish architectural governance.
Drive the strategic vision of the team.
Codify team innovations by publishing reusable architectural patterns.
Author authoritative white papers that influence internal enterprise strategy and the broader technology community.
Define multi-year technology roadmaps.
Shape enterprise standards.
Write advanced Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
Build robust CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure deployment.
Guide cloud migration strategies.
Lay the infrastructural groundwork for Next-Generation AI and MLOps workloads.
Drive infrastructural convergence.