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Ford Motor Company Senior Solutions Architect in Dearborn, Michigan
Senior Solutions Architect
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?
Product Development uses design thinking & user experience methods to deliver breakthrough products and services that delight our customers. We bring innovative, exciting, and sustainable ideas to life. We have opportunities around the world for you to contribute to advancements in autonomy, electrification, smart mobility technologies, and more!
In this position...
Ford Finance and Accounting is undergoing a digital transformation leveraging SAP S4 platform, which will significantly reduce the size and complexity of technical footprint, enable differentiating capabilities, and standardize its business processes.
What you'll do...
Lead an architecture team supporting global Finance and Accounting domain in SAP S/4HANA and legacy.
Coordinate and align all architecture deliverables and dependencies along with stakeholders across product teams, ERP Platform team, vendor to ensure solutions are developed to meet architecture standards and program timing.
Leverage SAP ERP products, third-party clouds (such as Blackline, Vertex cloud and Open Text cloud) and Ford standard services (such as Active Directory, Google CloudRun, BigQuery, Informatica MDM and IICS).
Work with the product teams to develop non-functional requirements for the products, designs the architecture and assists in addressing issues in achieving them
Evaluate architecture and design alternatives including implementing POCs and provides direction on the implementation based on the outcomes
Participate in vendor evaluation processes including leading the technical evaluation of the products and capability evaluation of the vendors
Investigate and recommends interoperability options for any new or revised interfaces aligned with architecture standards
Ensure architecture and implementation adheres to all Ford security requirements. Provide technical consultancy to vendors to ensure their products meet Ford security requirements
Guide the product teams in the development standards of the SAP ERP implementation.
Lead architecture support such as troubleshooting complex performance issues.
Thrive in a fast-paced working norm and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously.
You'll have...
Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field
10+ years of progressive roles in software development or implementation experience
5+ years of experience as a solutions architect
1+ full cycle of S4HANA implementation experience.
Even better, you may have...
Master of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field
12+ years of progressive roles in software development or implementation experience
7+ years of experience as a solutions architect
2+ full cycle of S4HANA implementation experience.
In depth technical knowledge of S/4HANA eco-system.
Active practitioner of Product Driven System of Delivery
Active practitioner of AGILE methodology and familiar with backlog scrumming.
Strong resource management to lead a team of global resources
Functional experience in Finance and Accounting, Warehouse Management, Order to Cash, eCommerce, Procure to Pay a plus
SAP RISE cloud, BTP cloud experience a plus.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Organizational aptitude to build stakeholder consensus on architecture solutions and roadmaps
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
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.
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This position is a leadership level 6.
This position is a range of salary grades LL6 .
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Requisition ID : 36116