Senior Solution Architect (LL6) position will lead business, information, and solution architecture for various products in Global Order Fulfilment. The senior solution architect provides technical leadership for large scale development program, works on providing new architecture solutions. The senior architect will work with other architects from other product portfolios like MPL (Manufacturing) and Sales/eCommerce.
Primary focus would be to support European Order Fulfilment (VISTA) and few Global/NA Product Lines.
Must Have Skills:
Technical Skills
Strong solution architecture, design and development background.
Experience in architecting and crafting interoperability solutions for an enterprise solution.
Solid understanding of Rest API , API security, OAuth, microservices architecture and implementation
Strong knowledge and experience in using API tools like Postman , swagger, etc
Experience or awareness of Mainframe Technology landscape
Experience with Cloud environments (GCP services)
Experience with various aspects of software development
Experience and knowledge of event streaming, and cache management
Very strong knowledge with cloud infrastructure environment, JavaScript (React JS) J2EE technologies.
Ability to learn new technologies and processes.
Leadership Collaboration Skills
Strong communication skills both verbal, written and presentation skills.
Negotiation skills and ability to work with several and diverse set of partners/customers.
Identifies the right technology element by probing into existing components or recommending a new platform for a business landscape.
Use tech standards to tackle problems with new and existing solutions while demonstrating passion for emerging technology capabilities.
Builds and leads the High level and low-level technical designs elements of the projects.
Interprets business user functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, security) to develop system specifications in close cooperation with business analysts and business customers.
Strong knowledge on Visio and other Project Technical Artifact creation tools and diagrams
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to multi-task and manage changing priorities.
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
Demonstrated ability to work in multiple projects simultaneously.
Nice to Have Skills
Experience working with teams in an agile environment.
Experience in trouble shooting sophisticated systems and performance testing and tuning.
Infrastructure architecture knowledge.
Work closely with business and product teams to define strategy and roadmaps at portfolio level.
Understand business requirements, work with business and product teams to come-up with impact assessment (at individual product level or overall portfolio level) and solutions.
Translate business requirements into technical architecture-based solutions.
Leads the product team in the development of the technical design.
Provides support such as troubleshooting to application performance issues.
Guide product teams to define new solutions and integrations with other customer facing products.
Participate on emerging tech trends and provide emerging trends review.
Utilize Design Thinking while working with Product teams to define, assemble and integrate components based on Ford standards and business requirements (examples: hardware, software, availability, scalability and reliability)
Develops and Communicates Architecture design for new features.
Supports the Product team in the development of the technical design and documentation.
