Business Architect jobs at Ford in United States, Dearborn

Enterprise Technology 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.

As part of our Human Resources team, you’ll help us attract, hire and retain the top talent we need to achieve our bold vision. You’ll play a vital role in defining, developing and maintaining the winning culture that empowers diverse individuals to work together and create the impossible. We’re seeking change leaders, talent strategists, employee advocates and culture architects to enable our teams, partners, and businesses to do and be their best.

In this position…

This position is located in Dearborn Michigan and has in office expectation of 4 days per week.

Solution Architect

In this position...
The Senior Specialist, Solutions Architecture leads architecture discussions for products/platforms throughout their entire lifecycle, leading the assessment of feature requirements and development of solution options with a focus on performance efficiency and cost optimization. The role oversees the interaction with the product team for technical assessments, maintenance of architecture artifacts, and collaboration with project teams to document future states. Additionally, the role leads the development of prototypes, facilitates training sessions for junior team members on solution architecture technical skills, and drives the application of new technologies.

What you'll do…

• Leads the design, implementation and execution of a respective business unit’s HR strategy and overall HR program delivery, spanning organization design, talent and workforce plans, and all company and business unit HR objectives.
• Drives the organization and HR Business Partner team towards a culture of excellence, prepares leaders and teams to embrace organizational change, and collaborates with HR and business leaders to ensure employees feel engaged and inspired to deliver business results in a dynamic and challenging environment.
• Designs approaches for diagnosing and enhancing organizational effectiveness and employee satisfaction.
• Translates company-wide objectives and initiatives into approaches that are tailored to the specific needs of the respective business unit and technical leaders and employees.
• Leads change management planning and activities that impact thousands of employees. Implements organizational structures that improve individual and organizational performance, including during times of rapid organizational change, while ensuring minimal business disruption.
• Develops organization-specific people and workforce plans and roadmaps to align the workforce with business needs and leads their implementation. Drives the execution of strategies to attract, engage, and retain world class talent required to support business growth.
• Owns accountability for talent management responsibilities, including performance management, disciplinary action, terminations, recruitment, pay decisions, and other personnel actions.

What you’ll have...

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s Degree (preferred) in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience.
• 8+ years of work experience with a Master’s degree or 10+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Human Relations or a related field.

Even better, you may have...

• Prior experience in the automotive or manufacturing industry.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, directly managing human resources team members.
• Master’s Degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience.

Work Requirements:

Involves occasional (defined as one-third or less of the time) lifting of no more than 10 pounds at a time. Work is performed primarily in a seated position and entails no significant stooping, standing, climbing, walking, etc. Many sedentary jobs require good use of the hands and fingers for repetitive hand-finger actions. Working conditions occur within low to moderate noise levels related to the use of standard office or classroom equipment.

Skills:

• Leadership (Coaching, Guiding, Influencing)
• Strategic Mindset
• Interpersonal and Executive Communication
• Problem Solving
• Team Management
• Performance Management
• Change Management
• Succession Planning
• Organizational Development
• HR Strategy
• Business Strategy
• Project Management
• Business Process Management
• HR Information Systems
• Employee Relations
• Talent Management

This description outlines the general nature and scope of work typically performed in this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, work requirements, etc. It may vary slightly based on business or geographic needs and is subject to being reviewed and updated periodically.

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, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.

This position is a leadership level 5.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here:Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.