Senior Solutions Architect
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Job Summary
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford were all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves
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 across more than 100 countries worldwide.
Ford Credit is building a new bank and modern digital banking capabilities using Fiserv technology(including DNA Create Digital and Nautilus) on a cloud-native foundation. We are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect / Lead Developerwho can shape the technical direction design secure and resilient architectures and deliver critical banking services end-to-end.
Responsibilities
What Youll Do...
- Core Banking Architecture (Fiserv DNA):Lead solution architecture and hands-on delivery for core banking capabilities including accounts transactions fees interest statements product configuration and operational workflowsleveraging Fiserv DNA patterns and best practices where applicable.
- Digital Banking Enablement (Create Digital / Nautilus):Design and implement integrations and service layers that enable seamless digital experiences across onboarding authentication customer servicing account maintenance and payments.
- Cloud-Native Design on GCP:Architect and build highly available secure scalable services using Google Cloud Platform (e.g. GKE/Cloud Run Pub/Sub Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL Secret Manager Cloud Logging/Monitoring).
- API & Integration Strategy:Define API standards and integration patterns (REST/event-driven) including canonical models idempotency versioning and performance/SLA requirements across the bank ecosystem and Ford enterprise systems.
- Event-Driven & Microservices Architecture:Drive modernization into well-bounded services using Java and Spring Boot leveraging asynchronous messaging and domain events where it improves resilience and decoupling.
- Security Risk & Compliance by Design:Build secure-by-default services for a regulated financial environment (PII protection encryption audit trails least-privilege IAM threat modeling automated security scanning).
- Engineering Excellence & Delivery Leadership:Set technical direction review designs and code and mentor engineers through pairing and coaching. Establish high standards for TDD CI/CD quality gates and operational readiness.
- Reliability & Observability:Define SLIs/SLOs logging/metrics/tracing standards and incident response practices. Lead root-cause analysis across distributed systems and drive improvements that prevent recurrence.
- Vendor & Partner Collaboration:Work effectively with Fiserv and internal stakeholders to align implementation choices to platform capabilities roadmap constraints and delivery timelines.
- Technical Roadmap Ownership:Translate product needs into reference architectures implementation plans and iterative delivery milestones while managing technical debt and long-term scalability.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Youll Have...
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related experience.
- 8 yearsof experience in software engineering with 3 yearsin a solution architecture / technical lead capacity delivering large-scale platforms.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Javaand Spring Boot(Spring Security Spring Data integration patterns API design).
- Proven experience designing and operating cloud-native systemson GCP(networking/IAM containerized workloads observability CI/CD).
- Strong experience with relational databases(PostgreSQL/SQL) data modeling transactional integrity and performance tuning.
- Experience building secure systems handling PII including encryption secrets management auditing and secure SDLC practices.
- Ability to lead architecture conversations across engineering product security and operationsbalancing business outcomes with technical constraints.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Even Better You May Have...
- Fiserv DNA experience including product configuration concepts core banking data models or implementation/integration experience.
- Experience with Create Digitaland/or Nautilus especially around digital origination/onboarding servicing or customer experience enablement.
- Prior experience building or modernizing core banking deposit systems payments or ledger-adjacent capabilities where auditability and correctness are non-negotiable.
- Experience with event/messagingpatterns (Pub/Sub Kafka concepts) distributed tracing and reliability engineering practices.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and platform engineering patterns (golden paths templates paved roads).
- Cloud certifications such as Google Professional Cloud Architect(or similar).
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Solr
- NoSQL
- Data Warehouse
- Internet Of Things
- Kafka
- DynamoDB
- ZooKeeper
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