Solution Architect leads architecture discussions throughout the life cycle of products and platforms. Conducts the assessment of feature requirements, reviews solution design/development options. Keeps focus on performance, efficiency and cost optimization. Oversees interaction with product teams for technical assessment, maintenance of architecture artifacts. Collaborates with project teams to document future stats. Additionally, develops prototypes/POC, participates and facilitates training sessions, drives adoption of new technologies and stays updated with industry best practices.
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
In this position...
The opportunity to learn and use new technologies.
- Leads architecture discusions for products and platforms across all stages from ideation, design, developement, deployment and maintenance.
- Assesses business requirements, documententing development requirements with focus on perfomance, efficiency and cost optimization.
- Develops options for solutions by analyzing / translating desired business capabilities into solution concepts and models.
- Collaborates with product team to conduct technical assessments of internal & external platforms and tools, covering aspects such as service interoperability, infrastructure, scalability, security, availability, data handling, licensing and global footprint.
- Leads maintenance of architecture artifacts, including architecture working documents and technical architecture diagrams to depict proposed solution & support implementation.
- Collaborates with project teams to document future state, assessing cost, risk, business value of architecture alternatives.
- Develops prototypes and proof of concepts to demonstrate new ideas and showcase the adoption of new technologies.
- Participates in advance level training and developement opportunities to enhance technical skills, stay current with industry best practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree (preferred) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Solution Architecture with Master's Degree or 5 years of work experience with Bachelor's degree.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified Google Cloud Architect
- Hands on experience with Cloud Run, Data Flow, Cloud SQL, DataProc, Airflow, Big Query and related GCP services.
- Experience with designing high-availability, high-volume, low-latency technologies.
- In-depth expertise with modern analytics tools and techniques, including data discovery, streaming analytics, and related technologies.
- Experience in Geo-spatial analysis is definite plus.
- Proven expertise in integrating Google Cloud Platform services into software applications.
- Troubleshooting and debugging applications.
- Experience with IaaC and CI/CD tools such as Tekton, Terraform, Github Actions, Jenkins.
- Expertise in modern analytics tools and techniques including data discovery, streaming analytics and related technologies.
- Ability to provide technical analytic/data solitions for applications.
- Negotiation skills and ability to work with diverse set of partners / customers.
- Excellent interpersonal written and oral communication skills to coordinate with many service owners and product teams.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• 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
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD
This position is a salary grade 8.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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