Cloud Solutions Architect

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The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships we provide financing personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position...

In this role define optimum architecture solution/s across a variety of engagements like experimentation proof of concepts and production deployments for this ensuring reuse and alignment to Ford standards and global value delivery framework.

The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

What youll do

• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organizations targeted business outcomes.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Defines the principles guidelines standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprises future-state architecture vision.
• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Provides deliverables like standard definitions reference models and architecture designs to help the architecture review board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment (run grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies legacy and technical debt and recommends solutions for improvement
• Supports product managers in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain refresh or retire products services or systems (including applications technologies processes and information).
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products
• Provides architecture solution to modernize existing on-prem system and promote cloud migration
• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions

Youll have

• Bachelors degree in computer engineering or Information Technology or a related study
• 8 years of work experience in IT solution development disciplines including technical or infrastructure architecture network management application development middleware data management EDA and cloud development
• Recent 2-3 years of work experience as an Enterprise / Solution Architect
• Exposure to multiple diverse technologies platforms and processing environments
• In depth knowledge of full stack and Microservices architectures hands on in NodeJS ExpressJS Angular React ReactNative and GraphQL
• Hands on in two of the three cloud areas AWS GCP Azure
• Ability to set up a devops pipeline for end-to-end automated deployment
• Good understanding of nuances of high performing Enterprise web and mobile application development

Even better you may have...

• GCP Certification
• Knowledge of Salesforce Cloud
• Understanding of Agile Devops and DevSecOps

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!

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 child care 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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BENEFITS

This position is a range of salary grades SG5-SG8.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color age sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability status or protected veteran the United States if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability please call 1-.

This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week) for candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location or remote for non-local candidates. #LI-Hybrid #LI-FordCredit#LI-MN1