Solution Architect

Enterprise Architect shapes Ford Digitization journey, through strategic roadmaps and innovative technical solutions by leveraging Ford's expertise and industry perspective across the enterprise. The role demands to be Techno-Functional experience supporting through different architecture layers such as: 

Engagement

• Functional: Business / Data / Information Architecture

Engages during strategic phases of SDLC (ID-Assess-Analyse) to define Strategy & Concepts (WHAT): Develops future state of an enterprise's business processes, technology, and information by defining actions required, generating overall portfolio/product roadmap and providing standards & guidelines to shift from the current state to the desired future state.

• Technical: Solution / Application Architecture

Engages during implementation phases of SDLC (Build-Test-Implement-Support) defining technical solution and approach to develop the strategy & concept (HOW): Perform PoC, define solution/integration designs, consider security aspects, provide consultation to product teams and resolve issues. 

The core area to support is - Global Order To Delivery / Order Fulfilment (Sales & Marketing)

The work is global in scope which will give the opportunity to collaborate with business partners, architects, product owners, product managers, and product designers around the world. As well provides avenue to develop working relationships with Enterprise Architecture broader teams, product teams, skill team and management. 

1. Functional:

• Develops and/or enhances specific artifacts such as business capability maps and value streams to help bridge the gap between strategy and execution, and helps streamline and rationalize the IT investment processes

• Gathering and documenting business requirements

• Supports creation of Business Integration Model

• Develop data models and provide references for data needs

• Create business process map, user journey map and data flow integration diagrams

• Guides the formulation of a business strategy by defining business architecture with Blueprints

  • Apply strategy and raise issues and risks with integration

  • Bring outside in perspective for analysis and solution recommendation

  • Perform evaluation of vendor product /solution

  • Facilitate results-driven meetings

• Drive to follow an idea to its logical conclusion, present PoV and ideas to management in a clear and concise manner.

• Research emerging business trends in Vehicle Order Fulfilment / Supply chain management

1. Technical:

• Create conceptual architecture design proposals from business requirements
• Evaluate NFRs and determine appropriate design patterns for the solution
• Translate design proposal into proof of concept with hands on development work as required
• Supports creation of Application Integration Models and govern on interoperability mechanism
• Ensures actual solutions meet the conceptual design and aligns with strategic objective
• Guide/Support product teams around the micro service architecture and other IT-operational processes
• Provides support to product teams on application performance issues
• Support vendor solution evaluation processes

1. Collaborate:

• Engage with the Product teams / Business teams and document related business processes

• Guide and coordinate with Product Anchors on designing the solution for the requirements

• Be a key member of a product team participating in their agile ceremonies

• Bachelor/Master of Engineering in Comp Science or related stream 

• Candidates should have 7+ year IT experience covering:

  • 3+ year on related business/IT including progressive experience in the architecture or engineering space with hands on Business Analysis and/or Product Design & Management

  • 4+ year Technical experience in application development and support

  • Recent 2-3 years role as Product Anchor or Enterprise Architect

• Strong Business Acumen in end to end supply chain management of Vehicle Sales & Production Planning & Vehicle Order Fulfilment, its associated business capabilities and solutions

• Certification: TOGAF / Any cloud Architecture

• Ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions Knowledge of EA Modelling tools - Experience creating and using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect and aggregate business capabilities Expertise with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman

• Expertise in creating business flows, business capability mappings, Blueprints , E2E Landscape Views 

• Work experience on data modelling tools and techniques

• Good knowledge / Hands-On development experience on multiple technologies (esp. Java/Cloud technologies esp. Angular/REACT, CloudSQL-PGSQL, Reporting tools) and patterns, related architecture including: Cloud hosting (GCP), APIs/micro services and integration of solutions

• The drive to follow an idea to its logical conclusion and ability to present to management in a clear and concise manner.

• Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

• Others:

  • Good exposure working on presentation/Data analysis tools like MS-Powerpoint/MS-Excel/Visio tools

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Strong team player, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Willingness to continuously learn, innovate and grow self and team is a MUST

  •  Willingness to be flexible and seek ideas/inputs from others and collaborate

  • Strong communication & Presentation skills

  • Able to work independently and collaborate

  • Able to plan and prioritize

  • Able to facilitate results-driven meetings

  • Stakeholder relationship building

  • Good at influencing people

Desired:

• Being Agile and exposure using Agile tools /processes (Jira)

• Willingness to learn new technologies

• Knowledge of Marketing & Sales systems and business processes

• Knowledge of Supply Chain Management

• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies (Google, AWS, Azure)