Solution Architect - Supply Chain Logistics jobs at Ford in India, Chennai

As a Senior Kinaxis Product Lead, you will be responsible for leading the technical and functional design and implementation of Kinaxis Rapid Response/ Maestro solutions for Ford's Supply Chain operations. You will work closely with business stakeholders, architects, and product teams to ensure successful development, deployment, and ongoing optimization of the Kinaxis products for Supply Chain Operations.

Role & Responsibilities

• Utilize Google Cloud Platform & Data Services to modernize legacy applications.
• Understand technical business requirements and define architecture solutions that align to Ford Motor & Credit Companies Patterns and Standards.
• Collaborate and work with global architecture teams to define analytics cloud platform strategy and build Cloud analytics solutions within enterprise data factory.
• Provide Architecture leadership in design & delivery of new Unified data platform on GCP.
• Understand complex data structures in analytics space as well as interfacing application systems. Develop and maintain conceptual, logical & physical data models. Design and guide Product teams on Subject Areas and Data Marts to deliver integrated data solutions.
• Leverage cloud AI/ML Platforms to deliver business and technical requirements.
• Provide architectural guidance for optimal solutions considering regional Regulatory needs.
• Provide architecture assessments on technical solutions and make recommendations that meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standard.
• Guide teams through the enterprise architecture processes and advise teams on cloud-based design, development, and data mesh architecture.
• Provide advisory and technical consulting across all initiatives including PoCs, product evaluations and recommendations, security, architecture assessments, integration considerations, etc.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems and cloud-based solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Java/Spring Boot, microservices architecture, and cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Proficiency in NOSQLDB is also required.

An experienced tech lead (LSA with LSA experience) who can think through requirements, guide overall design with phases, coach less experienced developers, resolve technical blockers, take accountability for overall design and implementation quality, adapt to evolving requirements, ensure sustainability.

As the Platform Observability Engineering Manager within Ford’s Data Platforms and Engineering (DP&E) organization, you will lead a team responsible for building and maintaining a best-in-class platform for monitoring and observability. This platform will focus on the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation), providing critical data to support operations, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and cost optimization initiatives. Working closely with platform architects, you will design, develop, and maintain a scalable and reliable platform, ensuring seamless integration with systems used by various teams across the organization. Your leadership will be key in mentoring your engineering team, driving improvements in MTTR and MTTX through increased visibility into system performance, collaborating with stakeholders to integrate observability data into their workflows, developing insightful dashboards and reports, continuously improving platform performance and reliability, optimizing costs, and staying current with industry best practices and technologies. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience managing large-scale, high-availability systems, a deep understanding of the four golden signals, experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, etc.), strong leadership and communication skills, and ideally, experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). This role prioritizes building and maintaining a robust platform; it is not focused on developing individual monitoring tools. Instead, it focuses on creating a centralized, reliable source of observability data that empowers data-driven decisions and accelerates incident response across the organization.

• Focus and Manage E2E supply from Global supplier base to Global Ford plants
• Drive business process transformation in supply chain
• To be self driven and excellence in E2E digitization and AI enabled supply chain journey

Responsible to oversee & coordinate for Freight Forwarding, Vessel Bookings & other activities related to Global RoRo Ocean shipments for the assigned regions/markets.

Position will also include Planning, Executions, Negotiations with External & Internal stake holders.

Should be a primary point of contact/ subject matter expert to handle assigned tasks for the given region/markets.

Display proficiency in Operational & Technology functions.