Architect

Ford - Dearborn, MI

Full-time - Senior

Dearborn, MI

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Architect position at Ford Motor Company focuses on data and analytics architecture within the Ford Credit team. This role is responsible for architecting and implementing next-generation data and analytics platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The architect will work closely with product teams to define technical architecture solutions that align with Ford's standards and business requirements, ensuring the integration of various components to meet enterprise data needs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement next-generation data and analytics platforms on GCP.
• Understand business requirements and apply architecture principles and standards to design technical solutions.
• Design flexible automated solutions for data processing from multiple sources and integrate complex datasets.
• Build solution architecture, provision infrastructure, and secure analytical applications on GCP.
• Develop and communicate architecture design for new products/features.
• Support the product team in the development of technical design and documentation.
• Provide troubleshooting support for application performance issues.
• Participate in vendor solution evaluation processes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in application architecture, design, and development.
• 3+ years of experience in modernizing legacy data platforms to cloud architecture.
• 2+ years of recent architecture experience in cloud analytics space using Google Cloud services.
• 2+ years of experience with enterprise architecture tools and processes (CBID, Tech 07, EAA, etc.).
• Deep technical subject matter expertise in Data Warehouse, Data lakes, Data domains, Data models, ETL processes.
• Experience in data management and Cloud data platforms.
• Experience working in GCP based Big Data deployments (Batch/Real-Time) leveraging Big Query, Big Table, Google Cloud Storage, PubSub, Data Fusion, Dataflow, Dataplex, Astronomer.

Nice-to-haves

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect Certification
• Ford Credit Data warehouse experience

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee discount
• Prescription drug insurance