DescriptionFord Credit Europe is transforming how customers access vehicle finance. As an Enterprise / Solution Architect in the Global Architecture team you will play a key role in our journey to design and develop the next generation of financial platforms. In this role you will be collaborating with product / engineering teams in Europe and India and have responsibility for providing architectural design technology solutions and guidance across a diverse selection of Ford Credit Europe applications and technologies ensuring alignment with our overall global architecture standards and strategies.
Responsibilities- Provide Architecture support to European and Indian based engineering squads & product teams
- Help design future strategic solutions define the technical stack and provide reference architecture patterns for the applications and platforms that you are responsible for
- Develop and maintain architecture artefacts including roadmaps and current / future state designs following industry standard architecture models and best practices.
- Design transitional architectures to help product teams on their modernisation journeys and guide teams through required enterprise architecture processes ensuring alignment with standards.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to product teams collaborate with key business stakeholders IT product teams engineering management and external partners.
- Provide architecture assessments on technical solutions and proposals make recommendations that meet business needs and present in architectural governance forums.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies industry best practices and internal global standards.
Qualifications- Minimum of 8 years overall IT experience in architecture or software engineering roles
- Minimum of 4 years handson Enterprise or Solution Architecture experience
- Deep technical proficiency in developing architecture designs for digital front end and back end foundational platforms ideally React Java Springboot Apollo GraphQL Kafka / PubSub PostgreSQL BigQuerytechnologies.
- Experience of migrating designing and building applications in modern cloud hosting environments specifically leveraging Google Cloud Platform services.
- Knowledge of enterprise frameworks and technologies. Strong in architecture design patterns experience withsecure interoperability standards and methods architecture tools and process.
- Good knowledge of strategic new and emerging technology trends and the practical application of them within enterprise within Banking and Financial sector preferred.
- Strong leadership communication interpersonal organizing and problemsolving skills with ability to communicate architectural proposals to diverse audiences (user groups stakeholders and senior management).
- Clear evidence of self improvement and personal technical development (for example Google Professional Cloud Architect certification or equivalent)
- Ability to work on multiple projects in a fast paced & dynamic environment