Solution Architect Supply Chain Intelligence

Solution Architect - Supply Chain Intelligence

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At Ford Motor Company we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrows transportation.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If youre looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape enhance the customer experience and improve peoples 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...

Solution Architect Supply Chain Intelligence will work with Product Delivery Teams to design and implement technical solutions for Fords Supply Chain Logistics portfolio. Responsibilities will include cloud data platform engineering location-tracking hardware strategy & AI/ML work for Inbound Material Logistics Mfg. Plant Material Flow and Outbound Finished Vehicle Logistics. Solution Architect will define technology decisions across Ford in-house built applications and vendor solutions to modernize Fords Supply Chain.

What youll be able to do:

Solution Architect Supply Chain Intelligence will be responsible for:

• Analyze business supply chain and manufacturing material flow needs to define technical architecture solutions that modernize Ford Supply Chain Logistics.
• Identify key portfolio capabilities define global system strategies architect end-to-end value streams recommend buy-vs-build decisions and evaluate vendor.
• Design foundational data platform to consolidate global data on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and drive intelligent insights via data-centric architecture.
• Design solutions with technical expertise in IoT Material Tracking Location Tags Vision Systems Google Cloud Platform and vendor Transportation Management Systems (TMS) / SaaS solutions.
• Define analyze assemble and integrate systems to deliver Supply Chain Intelligence for tracking visibility and predicting material flow while considering platform(s) user experience software cost availability scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with Material and Vehicle Logistics (MVL) Business Leads Software Delivery Leads Product Managers and Software Engineers in data platform design technology evaluation and guide teams in creating and delivering well-designed systems and capabilities.
• Provide support such as troubleshooting application functional performance and availability issues and participate in vendor solution evaluation processes.
• Collaborate closely as a member of one or more product teams.
• Immerse yourself in and evaluate current supply chain logistics and manufacturing material flow operations to gain deep domain knowledge.

Youll have...

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience as solution architect software engineer or equivalent.

Even better you may have...

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with industry supply chain logistics and material flow systems (TMS WMS YMS etc.).
• Previous experience as data engineer and/or software developer.
• Strong architecture knowledge with experience in providing technical solutions for cloud infrastructure. Google Cloud Platform experience is a plus.
• Strong system design knowledge of data platforms including the ingestion of various IoT location sources real-time data visibility and APIs and historical analytical reports. Experience with AI/ML models in addition to data platforms is a plus.
• Previous experience with Transportation Management System(s). Including but not limited to Blue Yonder Oracle TM SAP TMS e2open TM Manhattan TM.
• Previous experience with IoT Location tracking hardware and software solutions (BLE RFID Vision Systems etc.)
• Experience with microservice architecture REST APIs Event-Driven Messaging patterns and distributed cloud systems.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and hands-on application development. Understand how to architect highly available performant scalable global solutions.
• Self-starter ability to work independently.
• Self-researcher ability to research technologies and provide insight to product team.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Previous experience with multi-team large-scale projects and incorporating all levels of architecture development (Business Solution Application Infrastructure).
• Negotiation skills and ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders and customers.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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position is a range of salary grades 7-8.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-MD2