Position Description:
Critical Functional Tasks Deliver Business, Information and Solution Architectures Business Architecture
- Understand Business Goals and Objectives
- Conduct Stakeholder Analysis
- Develop Business Capability Models:
- Map Business Processes
- Align IT and Business Strategies
- Create Business Architecture Documentation Information Architecture
- Assess current data sources, types, and how data will be consumed for the solutions.
- Design Information Models
- Create conceptual, logical, and physical data models that represent the organization’s data structures and relationships.
- Design and propose solutions for integrating data from disparate systems to create a unified view of information.
- Document Information Architecture Solution Architecture
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements for the solution.
- Evaluate Technology Options:
- Research and assess various technology solutions and platforms that can meet the identified requirements.
- Create high-level architectural designs that outline the components, interfaces, and interactions within the solution.
- Ensure Alignment with Standards:
- Develop Prototypes or Proofs of Concept
- Document Solution Architecture
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that the solution is implemented according to the architecture, providing guidance and support as needed.
Skills Required:
Technologies and Skills:
- Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes/Serverless hosting, Cloud SQL & NoSQL Databases.
- Vendor SaaS evaluations and management.
- Microservice architecture and REST APIs.
- Agile development methodologies.
Skills Preferred:
Responsibilities:
- Define business and technical architecture solutions to modernize our Supply Chain.
- Address diverse challenges in N-Tier supplier collaboration, transparency, sustainability, and risk management.
- Work with technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Pega, E2Open, and Resilinc.
- Identify key portfolio capabilities and map global system strategy.
- Evaluate vendors and make buy-vs-build decisions.
- Modernize Ford in-house applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Provide enterprise architectural services for Supply Chain Management products.
- Design and consult on solution architecture.
- Develop architectural Points of View for proposed initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with product teams and business partners.
- Formulate strategy and support product lines through interaction with the business community, PDO teams, and other architects.
- Conduct hands-on evaluation of current supply chain operations to design customer-centric solutions.
- Partner with Business Leads, Software Delivery Leads, Product Managers, and Software Engineers in system design and technology evaluation.
- Provide support for application functional, performance, and availability issues.
- Participate in vendor solution evaluation processes.
Experience Required:
Position Qualifications:
- Three or more years of experience as a business and/or solution architect.
- Strong curiosity about technology and a self-starter attitude.
- Ability to conduct self-directed research and analysis.
- Team player with collaboration skills and knowledge-sharing mindset.
- Independent problem solver.
- Willingness to engage with business customers, PDO team members, ITO, and others.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Desire to become a well-rounded architect.
- Prior architectural experience is an asset but not a requirement.
- Experience with microservice architecture, REST APIs, and distributed cloud systems.
- Previous experience as a software developer/engineer.
- Experience with multi-team, large-scale projects and incorporating all levels of architecture development (Business, Solution, Application, Infrastructure).
- Good understanding of Agile development methodologies.
- Negotiation skills and ability to work with diverse stakeholders and customers.
Experience Preferred:
- This role requires deep immersion in current supply chain operations to design solutions that meet sustainability and risk management objectives.
Education Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
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