Company Description
The Ford Global Technology and Business Center (GTBC) in Sholinganallur, Chennai is a key hub for Ford Business Solutions, Technology Services, and Mobility, it focuses on innovation, AI, and cloud technology, that supports Ford global business operations.
Role Description
This is a full-time, on-site role located in Chennai for an Enterprise Architect. In this role, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining the overall architecture framework to align with business strategies and technology goals for Sales & Marketing (Order to Delivery).
The position involves guiding the development of business, technical, application, and solution architectures, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and integration strategies. You will collaborate with key stakeholders to assess system requirements, evaluate technologies, and provide efficient, sustainable, and scalable solutions. Additional responsibilities include monitoring the implementation of architecture solutions and ensuring compliance with organizational and industry standards.
Qualifications
- Expertise in Business Architecture, including aligning IT strategy with business goals
- Solid experience in Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture to deliver scalable, sustainable technology solutions
- Proficiency in Application Architecture and its alignment with enterprise system requirements and integration processes
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Proficiency in enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman is a plus
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Prior experience in the automotive, manufacturing is essential.
- Should have 7+ year IT experience covering:
- 3+ year on related business/IT including progressive experience in the architecture or engineering space with hands on Business Analysis and/or Product Design & Management
- 4+ year Technical experience in application development and support
- Recent 2-3 years role as Product Anchor or Enterprise Architect
- Strong Business Acumen in end to end supply chain management of Vehicle Sales & Production Planning, its associated business capabilities and solutions
- Expertise in creating business flows, business capability mappings, Blueprints , E2E Landscape Views
- Work experience on data modelling tools and techniques
- Good knowledge / Hands-On development experience on multiple technologies (esp. Java/Cloud technologies esp. Angular/REACT, CloudSQL-PGSQL, Reporting tools) and patterns, related architecture including: Cloud hosting (GCP), APIs/micro services and integration of solutions
