The Enterprise Architect role involves contributing to global strategic initiatives and making technology decisions for both in-house and vendor solutions to modernize Ford’s Supply Chain.
- Define business and technical architecture solutions to modernize Ford’s Supply Chain.
- Address diverse challenges in N-Tier supplier collaboration, transparency, sustainability, and risk management.
- Work with technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Pega, E2Open, and Resilinc.
- Identify key portfolio capabilities and map global system strategy.
- Evaluate vendors and make buy-vs-build decisions.
- Modernize Ford in-house applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Provide enterprise architectural services for Supply Chain Management products.
- Design and consult on solution architecture.
- Develop architectural Points of View for proposed initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with product teams and business partners.
- Formulate strategy and support product lines through interaction with the business community, PDO teams, and other architects.
- Conduct hands-on evaluation of current supply chain operations to design customer-centric solutions.
- Partner with Business Leads, Software Delivery Leads, Product Managers, and Software Engineers in system design and technology evaluation.
- Provide support for application functional, performance, and availability issues.
- Participate in vendor solution evaluation processes.
Critical Functional Tasks
Deliver Business, Information and Solution Architectures
Business Architecture
- Understand Business Goals and Objectives
- Conduct Stakeholder Analysis
- Develop Business Capability Models:
- Map Business Processes
- Align IT and Business Strategies
- Create Business Architecture Documentation
Information Architecture
- Assess current data sources, types, and how data will be consumed for the solutions.
- Design Information Models
- Create conceptual, logical, and physical data models that represent the organization’s data structures and relationships.
- Design and propose solutions for integrating data from disparate systems to create a unified view of information.
- Document Information Architecture
Solution Architecture
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements for the solution.
- Evaluate Technology Options: Research and assess various technology solutions and platforms that can meet the identified requirements.
- Create high-level architectural designs that outline the components, interfaces, and interactions within the solution.
- Ensure Alignment with Standards:
- Develop Prototypes or Proofs of Concept
- Document Solution Architecture
Work closely with development teams to ensure that the solution is implemented according to the architecture, providing guidance and support as needed.