Ford Sr Solutions Architect 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

163157413

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4 to 5 Solution architects will be responsible for understanding business requirements and defining technical architecture-based solutions that align to Ford Motor Company’s Patterns and Standards.
• Work with Product teams to define, assemble and integrate components based on Ford standards and business requirements (examples: hardware, software, availability, scalability and reliability.
• Develops and Communicates Architecture design for new products/features.
• Supports the Product team in the development of the technical design and documentation. Provides support such as troubleshooting to application performance issues.
• Participate in vendor solution evaluation processes.
• Provide architecture assessments on technical solutions and make recommendations that meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standard
• Provide solutions on NFRs and recommend best practices for cloud-based solutions
• Provide architectural guidance for optimal solutions considering regional Regulatory needs
• Provide advisory and technical consulting across all initiatives including PoCs, product evaluations and recommendations, security, architecture assessments, integration considerations, etc
• Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Provide architectural guidance for optimal solutions considering regional Regulatory needs.
• Lead creation and management of Application integration models, GCP infrastructure provisioning and DevOps pipelines
• Influence stakeholders to bring consensus on cloud-based solution designs

Required Skills and Selection Criteria:

• Overall 15+ years of experience with around 6+ years in Solution architecture role, with deep understanding of cloud hosting concepts and implementations.
• Good understanding of domain driven design and data mesh principles.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying applications based on Java, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, REST APIs CI/CD pipelines, and Event based architecture
• Strong hands-on experience on microservices and Event based architecture.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based architectures, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• Experience with combination of legacy and cloud native components considering security, performance, scalability, observability, DR, etc.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Hands on experience in implementing API, Micro-services, and application security
• Strong in architecture design patterns, experience with secure interoperability standards and methods, architecture tools and process.
• Good understanding on DevOps principles and practices, including continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), automated testing & deployment pipelines.
• Good understanding of cloud security best practices and be familiar with different security tools and techniques like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Encryption, Network Security, etc.
• Knowledge & know how of enterprise frameworks and architecture design principles.
• Good Understanding of traditional and cloud data warehouse environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Conceptual clarity around front-end development / GraphQL / CRM / Data Warehousing / ETL, etc.
• Strong exposure working in an environment where Development processes – Agile, SAFe been used.
• Strong presentation skills with ability to communicate architectural proposals to diverse audiences (user groups, stakeholders, and senior management).
• Strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, organizing, and problem-solving skills

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree in Computer science/engineering, Data science or related field.
• Experience in front-end development Angular, ReactJS
• Experience in building high performance teams.
• Ability to negotiate & influence stakeholders for driving strategic solutions
• Experience in migrating legacy applications to Cloud platforms and business adoption of these platforms for Automotive Lending, Banking and Insurance.
• Ability to work on multiple projects in a fast paced & dynamic environment.
• Knowledge or certification on TOGAF or any equivalent framework.