Enterprise Architect

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

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... 

This is an IT Enterprise Architect position in Ford Credit's North American Shop and Buy portfolio and is responsible for understanding technical business requirements and defining architecture solutions that align to Ford Motor & Credit Companies Patterns and Standards. This position will have the opportunity to lead and shape the loan originations portfolio as Ford Credit embarks on its transformative and modernization journey. This role will provide an opportunity to work with modernization leveraging AI tools as part of the Ford Credit modernization journey.

What you'll do...

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.

• Understand emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

• Work closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.

• Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement

• Support product managers in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services, or systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information).

• Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products

• Provide architecture solution to modernize existing on-prem system and promote cloud migration

• Articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences

• Translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements

• Work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions

You'll have...

• Bachelor's 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 experience in Google Cloud.

• 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

• Hands on experience with Gen AI and LLM

• Understanding of Agile, Devops and DevSecOps

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for