Data / Information Architect

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

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.

As a Data/Information Architect, you'll be responsible for designing and implementing a robust and scalable data strategy based on data-centric principles. You will also guide the implementation of the IS data Platform. You will collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to define data domains, onboard source systems, create data models, ensure data quality, map source to domain, assist in creating contracts, and provide architectural guidance for the implementation of the IS data platform.

Responsibilities:

• Provide consultation and data-strategy support for IS initiatives.
• Run EA IS Data Strategy Office Hours and provide guidance on data challenges.
• Partners closely with the EDP team,understand their roadmap and share relevant updates with IS EA architects.
• Design and develop information/data models (enterprise, conceptual, logical, and physical) for Industrial Systems; manage and maintain models in a Power Designer repository.
• Map applications to the conceptual data model, business processes, and business capabilities.
• Support product-team intake: translate use cases into data requirements and provide expert architecture guidance and designs.
• Lead discovery, onboarding, and analysis of sources into Industrial Systems Data Platform (ISDP); build deep understanding of the data landscape and enable integration of diverse sources into ISDP.
• Lead conceptual discussions to understand the data landscape; identify and evaluate candidate data sources; maintain data models and data dictionaries for identified source systems; and develop canonical domain models.
• Profile source-system data; define data-quality requirements, dimensions, and metrics; and guide monitoring, measurement, reporting, and issue remediation.
• Establish data-architecture principles, standards, best practices, and guidelines for the data platform (catalog, lineage, observability, security, interoperability).
• Perform proof-of-concepts and guide product teams in designing and developing solutions using GCP data-engineering technologies and tools.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Programming or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• 8+ years overall IT experience.
• 5+ years of Data Architecture, Data Engineering, or advanced Database Design/Modeling experience in designing or implementing OLTP/RDBMS databases, Data Warehouse, Data Marts.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience creating data models using data modeling tools (e.g. Power Designer)
• 2+ years of experience in GCP technologies including Big Query, Alloy DB, PostgreSQL, Cloud Run, Mongo DB, Data Flow.

Benefits:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.