Information Security Architect, BlueOval Battery Plant Michigan

Make history and make the future at BlueOval Battery Park Michigan  

If you’re ready to change the way the world moves, join us at BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, a new state-of-the-art facility in Marshall, Michigan. You’ll be a key part of the launch team that will help bring the electrification revolution to driveways, job sites, and highways everywhere. BlueOval Battery Park Michigan will produce the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells to power the next-generation Ford EV passenger vehicles and trucks under development. 

This new wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company will create more than 1,700 jobs when production begins in 2026.  

This role will start remote and then will be working hybrid out of Marshall, MI, with expectation to be on-Site at Marshall once offices are available (relocation package available).  

At BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, you will… 

• Use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions. 
• Build and lead an agile team to deliver the advanced technology that drives the future. 
• Create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought, and foster leadership in others.  
• Be part of the historic transformation of the automotive industry. 

You’ll also… 

• Responsible for delivering architecture solutions for IT and OT cybersecurity, for risk management, and for compliance activities. 
• Working with teams, management, and stakeholders to conceptualize, design, build, test, and release systems in environments with complex IT and OT systems. 
• Assessing the architecture of technology domains such as Network, Identity and Access Management, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Detection and Monitoring, for both IT and OT systems. 
• Documenting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and playbooks. 
• Creating relationships with team members and internal business customers and acting as an information security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for others to provide expert knowledge on an ongoing basis. 
• Identifying and reporting potential gaps in the environment that poses an overall risk to the organization. 
• Reviewing and approving rules for firewalls, VPNs, routers, IDS/IPS, and servers. 
• Participating in the security on-call rotation as needed. 

 

 

Capabilities Required: 

• Emotionally intelligent team member who remains calm in ambiguous situations. 
• Able to align team members from different backgrounds and cultures to achieve business strategy. 
• Strong leadership skills and experience leading, attracting, and developing strong results-oriented teams. 
• Experience managing high degrees of complexity in processes and communication with all levels of leadership. 
• Strong business acumen and project management skills 
• Collaborative leadership style is necessary to influence and build meaningful relationships with all cross functional teams. 
• Good communicator with a proven ability to build trust, influence, and foster relationships. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. 
• 7+ years of experience in information security and/or IT risk management with a focus on information security, engineering, and reliability. 
• Deep technical knowledge of secure systems architecture principles, security and compliance tools, data protection, and access models. 
• Ability to travel. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master’s Degree. 
• 10+ years of Information Security Architecture experience. 
• Experience succeeding in high levels of complexity, exposure, to multiple business issues, ambiguity, and conflict. 
• Hands-on development, engineering, networking, cloud and/or other technical work experience. 
• Experience with common information security management frameworks, such as International Standards Organization (ISO) 2700x, NIST-CSF series and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). 
• Experience with Microsoft, Palo Alto, and Cisco security