Solution Architect- Core Platform Modernization

Ford Motor Credit Company is modernizing its legacy Platforms to transform the business and unlock and unleash the power of data for improving customer experiences, regulatory compliance & operational efficiencies. We are rearchitecting our core applications and platforms and moving them to a Unified, Modern, Scalable & Secure solutions on Google Cloud.

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join FC India IT Architecture team. In this role, you will define optimum platform and domain architecture, create solutions to implement solutions on the cloud across a variety of engagements like experimentation, proof of concepts and production deployments for this, ensuring reuse and alignment to Ford standards and global value delivery framework.

This role will provide architecture guidance to the engineering teams in India and US. This role will also drive business adoption of the new platform and sunset of legacy platforms. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

Required Skills and Selection Criteria:

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in solution architecture, with deep understanding of cloud hosting concepts and implementations.
• Experience in converting legacy applications to containerized microservice design applications.
• Deep understanding of domain driven design and data mesh principles.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying applications based on Java, Angular, React, PostGres, GraphQL, REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and Event based architecture.
• Conceptual clarity around front-end development / GraphQL / CRM / Data Warehousing / ETL, etc
• Define Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for cloud-based solutions.
• Provide solutions on NFRs and recommend best practices for cloud-based solutions
• Hands on experience in implementing API, Micro-services and application security.
• Knowledge of enterprise frameworks and technologies.
• Strong in architecture design patterns, experience with secure interoperability standards and methods, architecture tools and process.
• Understanding of traditional and cloud data warehouse environment and experience building data pipelines on cloud in a highly distributed and fault-tolerant manner.
• Hands-on experience setting up DevOps principles and practices, including continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), automated testing & deployment pipelines.
• Practical experience implementing cloud security best practices and different security tools and techniques like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Encryption, Network Security, etc
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture.
• Google Professional Cloud Architect certification is an advantage.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong exposure working in an environment where Development processes - Agile, SAFe been used.

Nice to Have

• masters degree in Computer science/engineering, Data science or related field.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizing, and problem-solving skills
• Good presentation skills with ability to communicate architectural proposals to diverse audiences (user groups, stakeholders, and senior management).
• Ability to work on multiple tasks in a fast paced & dynamic environment.
• Knowledge or certification on TOGAF or any equivalent framework.

• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Collaborate and work with global architecture teams to build Cloud solutions.
• Create future architecture by utilizing cloud native Digital stack and Unified data platforms.
• Fast pace learner to pick-up business processes, current application landscape and create solution roadmaps
• Lead creation and management of Application integration models, GCP infrastructure provisioning and DevOps pipelines
• Contribute towards architecture assessments on technical solutions and make recommendations that meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standard.
• Collaborate with teams through the enterprise architecture processes and advise teams on cloud-based design, development, and data mesh architecture.
• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to help the architecture review board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Provide advisory and technical consulting across workstreams to the engineering, product and testing teams.