Solution Architect

at  Ford Motor Company

Cloud Software Engineering (CSE) plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience, and improve people’s lives: this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
To meet the growing needs of the mobility business, the CSE team is looking for a self-motivated, technically proficient individual to craft and shepherd coherent solutions. This will require collaboration with a range of stakeholders to clarify requirements, establish pragmatic approaches, and support and articulate decisions over time. You will join a cloud architecture team that works closely with engineering teams and other architects across the organization.

Serve as a Cloud Solution Architect to guide the design, development, and support of platforms, APIs, and services that deliver a geographically distributed IoT platform
Help unify existing platforms and develop supple, future-facing designs
Bolster data as a product practices and tooling driven by API and data contracts
Contribute to the cloud architecture team by helping to assess and improve its practices
Continuously learn complex and inter-connected domain areas to make informed decisions and recommendations
Apply requirements engineering practices to enable validation of systems
Work with product managers to devise solutions and break them down into incremental production-ready user stories
Work with engineering teams to refine and capture system designs
Evangelize and enforce characteristics that enable horizontal scalability and resilience across distributed systems
Facilitate inter-team communication to foster smoother integration and conceptual integrity
Assess and document rationale and tradeoffs involved in decisions and re-assess such decisions over time
Create Proofs of Concepts (POCs) to assess solution viability
Contribute as needed to develop and support systems
Build shared understanding through models, documentation, and discussions
Work in an agile software development environment using sprint/user story methodology
Work to establish and verify practices that maximize efficiency and minimize risk
Contribute to systemic improvements across processes and tooling
Introduce tools and libraries that improve developer experience and desired qualities
Research and analyze technologies and their suitability for existing and expected needs
Develop software that is Clean Code compliant and utilize tools such as SonarQube
Create and extend Web services to support architectural initiatives
Use DevOps tools such as GitHub, SonarCube, CheckMarx, and FOSSA to deploy, improve and manage software
Stay current on the latest technology and contribute to the technical direction of the company while keeping a customer-centric approac