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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...
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.
ResponsibilitiesWhat 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 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 Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a salary grade 6 – 8 and ranges from $72,480 - 162,120.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: New Hire Benefits
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. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid #LI-FordCredit #LI-JB5
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Ford is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet. We are here to provide the means for every person to move and pursue their dreams, serving as a bridge between personal freedom and the future of mobility. In that pursuit, our 186,000 employees around the world help to set the pace of innovation every day.
