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Ford Motor Company Solution Architect in Dearborn, Michigan
As a Solution architect you will provide technical support on a range of architecture issues for the Inventory Management and Material Planning portions of Ford’s Supply Chain (ISIT) portfolio.
The right candidate will have strong technical acumen. You will be involved in both detailed technical challenges and enterprise-wide strategic decisions. You will provide advisory and technical consulting for Project Synergy initiatives including Ford Motor Company’s effort to deploy SAP Production Planning (PP) and Inventory Management (IM) functionality to support Supply Chain and Manufacturing production operations that will replace the legacy CMMS system. You will collaborate with your peer Enterprise Architects, PDO teams, Material Planning and Logistics business, and cross functional organizations.
Key Responsibilities:
Create design proposals from business requirements.
Be a key member of a product team – at times participating in their agile ceremonies.
Create business and data flow / integration diagrams.
Assist in applying strategy and raise issues and risks with integration and interoperability strategy.
Review and ensure actual solutions meet the conceptual design and aligns with strategic objective.
Provides support to product teams on application performance issues.
Support vendor solution evaluation processes
Work on multiple projects simultaneously
Understand Ford’s current Material Requirements Planning (MRP) technical and business landscape including associated upstream and downstream systems.
Work with various stakeholders to transform current process / legacy systems to Industry best standards / technology / systems.
Define and develop end-to-end architecture, including system landscapes, integration points, data models, and technical components Recommend possible technology / process solution to address gaps.
Architect complex landscapes encompassing cloud, on-prem, internal and external systems.
Provide models and diagrams depicting current and future state Information Technology landscapes.
Stay current on technology trends and best practices to drive continuous improvement.
Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience
8+ years of functional/technical experience including:
Use of Cloud technologies – GCP, AWS, or Azure
Deployment experience
Overall 8+ years IT experience.
The drive to follow an idea to its logical conclusion and ability to present to management in a clear and concise manner.
Demonstrate ability on problem analysis/resolution and productivity improvements.
Ability to work closely work with development and business teams.
Strong team player.
Willingness to express and defend architectural points-of-view.
Willingness to continuously learn, innovate, and grow.
Willingness to be flexible and seek ideas/inputs from others and collaborate.
Ability to operate independently.
NICE to have:
SAP Solution Architect or SAP technical experience
GCP experience
Familiarity with Mainframe systems.
Experience in integrating with Siemens or Dassault PLM (or other PLM solutions), KINAXIS tools, Manufacturing Execution Systems, etc.
Respect and empathy for team members, business partner and product customer
Excellent at problem solving and prevention.
Knowledge and practical experience of agile delivery
Demonstrated ability to deliver product roadmap milestones
Manufacturing and / automotive domain background
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, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary (https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-1.pdf)
This position is a salary grade 8.
This position is a range of salary grades 8
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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