Senior Enterprise Data Architect

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Job Summary:

Ford Motor Company is a global company that is committed to making the future. In this role, the Enterprise Data Architect will be responsible for designing and implementing a scalable data strategy, collaborating with stakeholders to define data domains, ensure data quality, and provide architectural guidance for the operational data platform.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop information data models including conceptual, logical and physical data models for Industrial Systems. Manage and maintain these models in a Power Designer repository.

• Identify key data entities, create conceptual models, map them to value stages and business capabilities, and develop high-level data flows for both current and future states.

• Provide architecture guidance for the IS IT enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) strategy, support to establish data governance policies, evaluate and select right MDM tools.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and product teams to define business data domains, its ownership and guide to establish system of record and source of truth.

• Support the PDO team’s intake process, understanding business requirements, translating them into people, process, data and system requirements, applying data architectural principles, and provide right guidance to create data products.

• Provide a comprehensive data migration strategy to consolidate different workstream data centric platforms into one IS operational data platform.

• Perform data quality analysis, identify, propose recommendations to resolve data quality issues.

• Establish data architecture principles, data standards, best practices, and guidelines for the design of the operational data platform.

• Perform proof of concepts and guide Product team members to design and develop using different data engineering technologies and tools.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field

• 8 years overall IT experience including progressive IT experience in architecture.

• 5 years of Data Architecture or Database Administrator experience in designing or implementing OLTP/RDBMS databases, Data Warehouse, Data Marts

• 4 years of hands-on experience creating data models using data modeling tools (e.g. Power Designer)

• Knowledge of Master Data Management concepts and tools

• Experience in GCP technologies including Big Query, PostgreSQL, DBT, Cloud Run, Mongo DB

• Experience in defining and implementing data quality initiatives.

Preferred:

• Functional and Architecture Experience with one or more PLM platforms (e.g., Siemens’ Teamcenter, Dassault’s 3D Experience)

• Knowledge of TOGAF, DAMA Architecture Framework and Standards

• Ability to define data architecture principles, guidelines and standards

• Expertise in interoperability standards and methods

• Outstanding and proven leadership skills in working with senior-level management helping in decision-making.

• Demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

• Strong ability to self-manage and develop work plans that employ appropriate methods to resolve ambiguity and build consensus for an architectural solution

Company:

We don't just make history -- we make the future. Founded in 1903, the company is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Public Company.