Senior Staff Business Architect

Ford • Long Beach, CA

2d • $148,800 - $281,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Staff Business Architect will lead enterprise-wide transformation strategies that establish critical business capabilities in support of Ford’s electrification objectives. This role owns a portfolio of complex, cross-functional transformation programs and develops, grows, and leads a team of business architects responsible for translating strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Operating with a high degree of autonomy and broad organizational influence, this leader will define future-state operating models, establish transformation roadmaps, guide execution, and ensure sustainable adoption. The role will partner across Engineering, Manufacturing, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and external partner organizations to align priorities, resolve enterprise-level trade-offs, and deliver lasting improvements across people, processes, data, and technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 14 or more years of relevant experience, including at least seven years leading transformation, business architecture, enterprise strategy, or management consulting initiatives in complex product-development or manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated success owning and delivering a portfolio of large, cross-functional programs—from strategic discovery through implementation and sustainment—with accountability for enterprise-level outcomes.
• Advanced expertise in operating-model and process design, including current-state assessment, future-state definition, capability design, and implementation planning.
• Proven ability to define a strategic vision, measurable outcomes, and multi-phase roadmaps spanning processes, data, technology, organizational structures, and workforce capabilities.
• Strong executive stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority, align cross-functional priorities, and resolve high-stakes conflicts and trade-offs.
• Extensive experience in organizational change management, including communication, training, stakeholder-readiness, adoption, and reinforcement strategies at enterprise scale.
• Strong program and portfolio governance capabilities, including scope and plan management, cross-program dependency management, risk mitigation, and benefits realization.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience quantifying opportunities, developing business cases, and delivering decision-ready recommendations.
• Fluency in business and IT enablement, including process and data mapping, enterprise systems integration, requirements definition, and large-scale testing and validation.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, concise narratives and decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Business, Strategy, or a related field.
• Automotive industry experience or experience developing and manufacturing complex hardware products.
• Familiarity with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and IT operating environments.
• Experience with enterprise product-development toolchains, including Product Lifecycle Management systems, and related data and process standards.
• Formal organizational change management training, certification, or leadership experience.
• Demonstrated record of delivering measurable improvements in cycle time, cost, quality, delivery, compliance, or other enterprise performance indicators.
• Experience establishing and scaling reusable transformation standards, playbooks, governance models, and continuous-improvement practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise transformation strategies aligned with Ford’s electrification priorities and broader business objectives.
• Own a portfolio of large, cross-functional programs from strategic discovery and business-case development through implementation, adoption, and sustainment.
• Establish a clear transformation vision, measurable success criteria, and multi-phase roadmaps spanning people, processes, data, and technology.
• Design current- and future-state operating models, business capabilities, processes, governance structures, and organizational interfaces.
• Translate complex systems thinking and enterprise dependencies into practical, executable transformation plans.
• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of business architects, including defining standards, methodologies, and expectations for the discipline.
• Influence executive stakeholders, align competing priorities, facilitate enterprise decisions, and resolve high-impact risks, conflicts, and trade-offs.
• Establish portfolio governance, including scope and roadmap control, dependency management, risk mitigation, benefits realization, and executive reporting.
• Set organizational change management strategies encompassing communications, stakeholder engagement, training, readiness, adoption, and reinforcement.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to define process and data requirements, shape enterprise tool-integration strategies, and oversee testing and validation at scale.
• Quantify transformation opportunities and develop executive-ready business cases, recommendations, and decision materials.
• Establish reusable standards, playbooks, governance cadences, and continuous-improvement mechanisms that strengthen transformation capability across the enterprise.
• Monitor business outcomes and ensure programs deliver measurable improvements in areas such as cycle time, cost, quality, delivery, and compliance.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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