Principal Architect responsible for leading industrial systems architecture at Ford Motor Company. Focusing on technology integration, business alignment, and teams across global operations.
About the role
- Principle Architect leading teams in enterprise technology and solutions architecture. Collaborating across IT and operations for strategic delivery and innovation at Davies.
Responsibilities
- Definition of Enterprise Solutions Architecture standards.
- Establish strong partnerships with business operations teams to provide support and development of enterprise technical roadmaps.
- Support the technical project lifecycle in the delivery of cloud and on-premise solutions.
- Delivery of projects that encompass systems architecture, proof of concept and deployment services.
- Establish and enforce best practices in solution architecture, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions, encompassing network security, endpoint protection, identity and access management, and data protection.
- Shape the product delivery and strategic direction of enterprise systems including ServiceNow.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the teams, helping to resolve complex technical challenges, prioritisation of work and unblocking of technical issues.
- Collaborate with IT leadership and cross-functional teams, including product development, operations, and project management, to achieve required project outcomes.
- Be a lead participant in architecture and standards forums.
- Support continuous review and reduction of IT delivery costs.
Requirements
- Proven technical leadership experience leading technical teams in the delivery of enterprise solutions.
- Proficient in cloud networking, security and architecture.
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to communicate with all levels of people within the business including both technical and non-technical audience.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers on the delivery of IT services
- Experience of managing enterprise platform teams in the delivery of business strats.
- Consistently delivers high-quality outputs, demonstrating strong attention to detail in both content development and visual presentation
- Strong experience and understanding of IT delivery methods and frameworks including Agile and Scrum methodologies and principles.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines that require prioritisation of teams’ activities and deliverables
Benefits
- Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, and belief (or lack thereof).
- Join us and enjoy our ever-evolving benefits, including but not limited to:
- Reward platform – discounts for over 800 retailers
- 25 days holiday (rising with service)
- Well-being centre
- Recognition programme
- Paid fertility appointments
- Fostering friendly employer
- Pension - matched contribution at 5%
- Life Assurance (4 x basic salary)
- Development, training, and professional qualification
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