Senior Cloud Architect

Columbus, OH, United States

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up daily, roll up our sleeves, and build a better world together. At Ford Motor Company, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

As a key member of our Enterprise Technology Group, you’ll play a critical part in crafting the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to bring to bear advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience, and improve people’s lives, this is your opportunity. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help build vehicles that are as inquisitive as you are.

Enterprise Technology is looking for a hands-on, dynamic Technical Leader who can lead the team that provides holistic Infrastructure Architecture Strategy and Consulting Guidance to operations and software delivery teams. We seek a highly motivated, technology-focused individual passionate about improving and simplifying Ford’s highly complex global infrastructure environment across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises data centers, and distributed locations in all major regions.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

As the Senior Cloud Architect , you will provide day-to-day leadership of a technical team responsible for architecting key cloud-native infrastructure, computing, database, network, storage, and interoperability.

What you’ll be able to do:

You will work with Technology & Software Platform teams to define the architecture for cloud infrastructure across the Ford Enterprise, including hosting, computing, databases, and networks.

You will be responsible for understanding enterprise needs and defining technical architecture solutions that modernize Ford Motor Company’s patterns and standards for use in the cloud.

Responsible for strategic analysis and evaluation to create the enterprise standard technology stack offerings available to application teams.

Define, analyze, assemble, and integrate components to deliver infrastructure patterns for the business, including consideration for platforms, software, availability, scalability, and reliability.

Partner with IT Operations teams in technology evaluation and guide teams in creating, documenting, and communicating architecture principles.

Participate in emerging tech trends and provide emerging trends review.

Supports the development of the technical design and documentation.

Participate in strategy development and requirements analysis.

Maintain open channels of communication by providing relevant information, technical expertise, and recommended best practices and patterns.

The minimum requirements we seek:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field

7 years of experience in IT or Technology-related disciplines with progressively increasing responsibility.

5+ Experience working with cloud-native (Azure, PCF, AWS, GCP) and hybrid cloud environments such as researching the best use of cloud products and the ecosystem, then providing technical and strategic insights to a product team as well as defining guidelines for development teams and infrastructure platform teams

5+ years of Experience in Kubernetes in a development, administration, and/or architect capacity.

Develop Proof of Concepts and Documents and present the solution to Architects and Product Development Teams.

Our preferred requirements:

Advanced degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related field

2+ years’ experience as a Technical Leader shaping future architecture across compute, storage, database, network, interoperability, and security aspects.

Behavioral Leadership (ability to handle difficult situations and establish links with others)

Supervisory experience, including building or expanding teams.

Experience in defining and aligning to SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs.

Demonstrated ability to set strategy on future technology stacks and maturing the stack for wider adoption at the Enterprise Level

Experience collaborating with technology teams in the design, development, and deployment of digital products.

Ability to develop strong working relationships across multiple Architect teams.

Ability to thrive in complexity and make tradeoffs between competing priorities.

Strong knowledge of Visio and/or other Project Technical Artifact creation tools and diagrams

Willing to work in a highly collaborative environment spread across the US, EU, China, Australia, India, and elsewhere, and across internal organizations with different focus areas.

Experience working globally, and with multiple vendors to bring together cohesive strategies.

Good team building, organizational, and time-management skills

Proactive attitude and the courage to ask questions.

Excellent communication skills, with demonstrated ability to adjust messages to deeply technical audiences or senior business leaders.

A curiosity towards new technologies that may benefit the entire organization and a strong desire to learn.

Possess GCP Certification with one of the following: Google Cloud Digital Leader, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, and/or Google Cloud Network Engineer

Preferably CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), CKD (Certified Kubernetes Developer) or Openshift Certified

“This job is posted as remote unless the selected candidate lives within 50 miles, then it may not be fully remote.”

What you’ll receive in return:

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage, generous PTO, retirement, and savings plans, incentive compensation, tuition assistance, a vehicle discount program, and much more

For information on Ford's salary and benefits, please visit:

https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-LL6-sal-plan-1.pdf ( This position is a leadership level 6 .)

Candidates with Ford Motor Company positions must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

Requisition ID : 30277