
Senior Architect - Supply Chain
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $112,680 - $212,760 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design the Future: Evolve the technical architecture for supply chain modernization, focusing on material flow, inventory management, and operational resilience.
- End-to-End Alignment: Develop detailed technical specifications that align functional business requirements with scalable, secure, and high-performance technical solutions.
- Integration Excellence: Partner with domain leads to ensure seamless connectivity between enterprise planning platforms and execution systems.
- Scalable Solutions: Lead the design of technical products supporting sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and supplier collaboration.
- Engineering Standards: Provide mentorship to development teams, ensuring the use of reusable design patterns and adherence to rigorous engineering standards.
- Drive Innovation: Identify and implement cutting-edge solutions to solve complex supply chain bottlenecks and enable data-driven decision-making.
- Cloud Migration: Define the technical strategy for migrating legacy mainframe platforms to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Data Governance: Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure accurate, governed, and efficient data movement (cleansing, mapping, and transformation).
- Interoperability: Design integration strategies that allow legacy systems, cloud platforms, and third-party applications (e.g., SAP, E2Open) to work in harmony.
- Tech Scouting: Research and recommend emerging technologies, evaluating them for cost-effectiveness, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
- Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of industry trends in Supply Chain 4.0, cloud ecosystems, and integrated data platforms.
- Collaborative Culture: Foster an innovative, delivery-focused engineering culture by communicating complex technical concepts to both executive stakeholders and technical teams.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in technical architecture and software engineering.
- Domain Expertise: Proven track record in Supply Chain Management, specifically with platforms such as SAP S/4HANA, E2Open, or Global TMS platforms.
- Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience designing and implementing data products and pipelines within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Preferred Skills & Experience:
- - Manufacturing Knowledge: Deep understanding of plant-floor business processes and manufacturing execution systems.
- - Legacy Transformation: Experience leading large-scale migration projects from Mainframe environments to the Cloud.
- - Advanced Analytics: Proven experience integrating AI/ML and Data Analytics into supply chain workflows to deliver tangible business value.
- - Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- - Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships with internal partners and external vendors.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical architecturesoftware engineeringdata productsdata pipelinesAI/ML integrationdata analyticscloud migrationlegacy transformationdesign patternsinventory management
Soft Skills
leadershipmentorshipcommunicationcollaborationinnovationinterpersonal skillsrelationship buildingdelivery-focusedproblem-solvingagile environment