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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, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.
In this position...
Consider This - Have you looked at the top corporate priorities, heard about chips? Companies and governments world over have identified a need for better collaborative and integrated systems to provide visibility and confidence to manage supply chain risks. Want to participate and help?
As a key contributor to the Visibility and Collaboration IT efforts, you can implement transformative Ford - Supplier collaboration efforts. Ford is seeking skilled, and ambitious professionals to help us be innovative and develop systems solutions.
We are adding a Technical Cloud Architect- Supply Chain Digitization to be a part of our Enterprise Architect group who will collaborate closely with IT Product teams.
What you'll do...
Set the technical direction and implementation strategy with an end-to-end view, to deliver high quality cloud solutions.
Focus on overarching cloud strategy, industry trends and tool adoption and guide product teams to build best-in-class software development to support the needs and expectations of internal stakeholders.
Have an opportunity to gain cross-functional experience working with teams across the enterprise in solving critical business needs.
Additional Responsibilities:
Function as a cloud architect closely collaborate with software engineers to deliver scalable IT solutions.
Conduct Architecture reviews, data modeling, vendor evaluation process.
Collaborate with external and internal technical peers (Product Managers, Product Designers, Software Engineers, Architects, and vendors) to design and validate technical approaches and designs.
Contribute to creating systems solutions that are optimized for performance, scalability, and security.
Keep awareness of technology advances and recommend innovative technical approaches consistent with Ford enterprise IT direction.
Contribute to maintain a readied backlog and enable the team to go further with effective usage of Rally/Jira backlog management tool.
Advocate the use of agile methodologies and ensure implementation of DevOps and software craftsmanship practices like CI/CD, TDD tools.
Develop relationships and maintain a knowledge of the ecosystem.
Participate in triage and debugging sessions for tool integration issues.
Assist in gathering metrics to track product and data quality in meeting stakeholders' requirements.
You'll have...
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
10 years of IT experience including:
Experience with industry standard development environment, technologies, tools, and techniques including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques, Agile Programming disciplines.
Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for creating solutions with an Agile Mentality
Ability to operate in an ambiguous environment with a curiosity towards new technologies and a strong desire to learn so that the team may benefit.
Good communication and collaboration skills and working with global teams.
Knowledge about API design standards, patterns, and best practices to create robust and performing integrated systems.
Ability to solve complex technical problems and accomplish tasks with minimal supervision.
Experience in developing associated business cases and plans which are detailed, actionable and aligned with industry best practices.
3+ years of Enterprise Architecture experience
2+ years of experience with Cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Platform (preferred), Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. This also includes knowledge in Cloud deployment, Infrastructure as code (IaC).
Even better, you may have...
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field
Experience with business domains Purchasing, MP&L, Product Development will be considered a plus.
High degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to work autonomously.
Working experience with containers Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker etc.
Working experience in cloud monitoring and alerting services and capabilities.
Knowledge of cloud monitoring and alerting services and capabilities.
Full stack development experience in cloud platform.
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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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 Year's Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here:
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This position is a range of salary grades 7-8.
Visa sponsorship is not 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 status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week) in Allen Park, MI
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Requisition ID : 56367
