Cloud Solutions Architect

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We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position, you will define optimum architecture solutions across a variety of engagements such as experimentation, proof of concepts and production deployments, ensuring reuse and alignment with Ford standards and global value delivery framework.

• Understand business drivers and capabilities, determining corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Assess emerging technology trends and disruptions, applying existing and new technologies to enable evolving business and operating models.
• Collaborate closely with product owners and managers to support a robust architectural runway for future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to align solution decisions with the enterprise’s future‑state architecture vision.
• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint, and document all design and analysis work.
• Provide deliverables such as standard definitions, reference models, and architecture designs to support the Architecture Review Board (ARB) in evaluating new technology investments.
• Analyze the business‑IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy issues, and technical debt, recommending solutions for improvement.
• Support product managers in end‑of‑life product decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire products, services, or systems.
• Manage and develop architecture for a broader scope of projects or products.
• Modernize existing on‑prem systems and promote cloud migration.
• Articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Transform future‑state business capabilities into solution architecture requirements.
• Apply creative and analytical thinking to solve business problems and propose solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, information technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, data management, EDA, and cloud development.
• Recent 2‑3 years as an Enterprise/Solution Architect.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments.
• In‑depth knowledge of full‑stack and microservices architectures; hands‑on experience with Node.js, Express.js, Angular, React, React Native, and Graph
  
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• Hands‑on experience in at least two of the three cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Ability to set up a Dev Ops pipeline for end‑to‑end automated deployment.
• Strong understanding of high‑performing enterprise web and mobile application development.
• Preferred: GCP certification.
• Preferred:
  Knowledge of Salesforce Cloud.
• Preferred:
  Understanding of Agile, Dev Ops, and Dev Sec Ops .

We offer a range of benefits including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new‑parent ramp‑up programmes, subsidised backup child care and more.
• Family‑building benefits such as adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more.
• Vehicle discount programme for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Generous paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Salary range: SG5–SG8.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week) for candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location or remote for non‑local candidates.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1‑888‑336‑0660.

Legal requirement:
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.