Solution Architrect
Auto Req ID:
30880BR
Job Title:
Solution Architrect
Location:
Taylor
State:
MI
Company:
Ford Motor Company
Job Description
Position Overview/Description:
The Ford Smart Mobility architecture organization is looking for an experienced solution architect to design and implement solutions that support the business goal of aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and data/analytics, as well as alternative mobility solutions.
We are looking for someone to work in our mobility area, helping to provide alternative mobility solutions. You will collaborate with business customers, developers, security specialists and fellow architects to provide global, robust, secure and scalable solutions.
If you are a creative self-starter who is interested in providing solution architecture and application design guidance to multiple teams in an agile manner, this may be the job for you. Join us in building solutions that provide a differentiating capability for Ford in the global market.
Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications:
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Ford Motor Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. 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.
Position Overview/Description:
The Ford Smart Mobility architecture organization is looking for an experienced solution architect to design and implement solutions that support the business goal of aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and data/analytics, as well as alternative mobility solutions.
We are looking for someone to work in our mobility area, helping to provide alternative mobility solutions. You will collaborate with business customers, developers, security specialists and fellow architects to provide global, robust, secure and scalable solutions.
If you are a creative self-starter who is interested in providing solution architecture and application design guidance to multiple teams in an agile manner, this may be the job for you. Join us in building solutions that provide a differentiating capability for Ford in the global market.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with business partners and IT personnel to design and develop solutions
- Communicate architecture through key architecture documents
- Collaborate with security specialists to provide a secure architecture
- Guide teams along the way in best practices in development, testing and dev-ops
- Ensure overall quality of architecture solutions throughout the development process
- Share and present architecture to cross-functional teams and executive leadership
- Prove out new technologies through proof of concept work
- Demonstrated ability to work on multiple project efforts simultaneously
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 5+ years of years experience exhibiting architecture knowledge with experience in providing technical solutions for projects
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in Application and Restful API development
- 3+ years of experience with Java technologies, Rest Web Services, Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, MVC and Spring Cloud Services), Messaging architectures
- 3+ years of experience with mobile application development
- Master’s degree
- Excellent problem solving skill
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and innovate solutions
- Self-starter, ability to work independently but still can work within group to deliver top-notch solutions
- Experience implementing or supporting mobile applications and frameworks
- Experience with interoperability and the myriad of ways to exchange data effectively and securely
- Leadership skills in working with senior-level management and assisting in decision-making
- Mobile Telephony
- Mobile and HTTP protocol knowledge
- Architecting public facing solutions
- Cloud Foundry architectures (e.g. Cloud Foundry, Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
- Understanding of highly available scalable global architectures. (99.99 percent availability or less than 1 hour of scheduled and unscheduled downtime per year with greater than 3M global connections)
- Knowledge of Ford standards and processes
- Implementing Vehicle Systems software or working with device based telemetry data
- Experience in trouble shooting complex systems and performance testing and tuning
- Experience with Mobile client applications
- Network knowledge
- Negotiation skills and ability to work with several and diverse set of stakeholders/customers
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Ford Motor Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. 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.