Solution Architect

In this role you will be collaborating with product / engineering teams in Europe and India and have responsibility for providing architectural design, technology solutions and guidance across a diverse selection of Ford Credit Europe applications and technologies ensuring alignment with our overall global architecture standards and strategies.

Role & Responsibilities

• Provide Architecture support to European and Indian based engineering squads & product teams
• Help design future strategic solutions, define the technical stack and provide reference architecture patterns for the applications and platforms that you are responsible for
• Develop and maintain architecture artefacts including roadmaps and current / future state designs following industry standard architecture models and best practices.
• Design transitional architectures to help product teams on their modernisation journeys and guide teams through required enterprise architecture processes ensuring alignment with standards.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to product teams, collaborate with key business stakeholders, IT product teams, engineering management and external partners.
• Provide architecture assessments on technical solutions and proposals, make recommendations that meet business needs and present in architectural governance forums.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry best practices and internal global standards.

Required Skills And Selection Criteria:

• Minimum of 8+ years overall IT experience in architecture or software engineering roles
• Minimum of 4+ years hands-on Enterprise or Solution Architecture experience
• Deep technical proficiency in developing architecture designs for digital front end and back end foundational platforms, ideally React, Java Springboot, Apollo GraphQL, Kafka / PubSub, PostgreSQL, BigQuery technologies.
• Experience of migrating, designing and building applications in modern cloud hosting environments, specifically leveraging Google Cloud Platform services.
• Knowledge of enterprise frameworks and technologies. Strong in architecture design patterns, experience with secure interoperability standards and methods, architecture tools and process.
• Good knowledge of strategic, new, and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of them within enterprise landscapes. Experience within Banking and Financial sector preferred.
• Strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, organizing, and problem-solving skills with ability to communicate architectural proposals to diverse audiences (user groups, stakeholders, and senior management).
• Clear evidence of self improvement and personal technical development (for example Google Professional Cloud Architect certification or equivalent)
• Ability to work on multiple projects in a fast paced & dynamic environment