Principal Architect

2 hours ago

🚗 Michigan – Remote

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Ford Motor Company

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Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

Automotive • Financial Services • Mobility

10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

🚗 Transport

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

📋 Description

• Define and execute the technical vision and strategy for cloud modernization, leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP). • Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native architectures, integrating machine learning, big data, and observability solutions. • Establish best practices for automation, CI/CD, and DevSecOps to drive operational efficiency and software quality. • Lead technical governance to ensure alignment with business objectives, security policies, and compliance requirements. • Architect and implement event-driven data architectures that support data mesh principles, data as a product, and domain-driven design (DDD) . • Define strategies for data interoperability, governance, and self-service platforms to enable AI and analytics-driven decision-making . • Lead the adoption of MLOps practices, ensuring seamless deployment and monitoring of machine learning models in production. • Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to define scalable and cost-efficient architectural solutions. • Act as a mentor and coach to senior engineers and architects, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence. • Drive technical innovation by researching emerging technologies, contributing to open-source communities, and participating in industry forums.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software architecture, cloud engineering, or enterprise systems design. • Deep expertise in cloud-native platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerized microservices architectures (Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Service Mesh). • Strong knowledge of distributed data systems, event-driven architectures (Kafka, PubSub, etc.), and API design (GraphQL, REST, gRPC) . • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana). • Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.