# Enterprise Architect - Supply Chain

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

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

- 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.

## Critical Functional Tasks

### Deliver Business, Information and Solution Architectures

### Business Architecture

- Understand Business Goals and Objectives

- Conduct Stakeholder Analysis

- Develop Business Capability Models:

- Map Business Processes

- Align IT and Business Strategies

- Create Business Architecture Documentation

### Information Architecture

- 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 organisation'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

### Solution 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.

## Qualifications

- 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.

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

- 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.

## Technologies and Skills:

- Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes/Serverless hosting, Cloud SQL & NoSQL Databases.

- Vendor SaaS evaluations and management.

- Microservice architecture and REST APIs.

- Agile development methodologies.

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Google Cloud Platform
- Microservice architecture
- REST APIs
- Agile development methodologies
- Kubernetes/Serverless hosting
- Cloud SQL & NoSQL Databases
- Vendor SaaS evaluations and management

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