Product Group - Integration Architect - Ford Pro IMG

Ford Pro is a global leader in commercial vehicle solutions, delivering products and services that help businesses thrive. We are dedicated to empowering businesses by making fleet management effortless and efficient, both today and in the future, through a comprehensive ecosystem of fleet-focused solutions. Our digital platforms power the customer experience across fleets of all sizes, and we are committed to building best-in-class solutions for our users worldwide. This diverse portfolio spans critical areas such as Telematics, Vehicle Uptime and After Sales solutions.

Position Summary

As the IMG IT Product Group Architect for Ford Pro, you will play a pivotal role in architecting the strategic technology landscape for the Ford Pro product portfolio within IMG. You will provide overarching technical leadership and guidance, drive innovation, and ensure IT solutions are deeply aligned with Ford s commercial business strategy and broader enterprise architectural principles. This role involves working with cross-functional teams to lead the design and implementation of solutions that deliver incremental business value, ensuring scalability, optimal performance, and adherence to best practices and industry standards.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. A Masters degree is a plus.
• Minimum of 8 years of proven experience in IT, with at least 5 years in solution architecture, preferably within automotive or related industries. At least 2 years of demonstrated senior technical leadership (e.g., Lead Architect, Principal Architect, Product Group Anchor) with a proven ability to strategically drive architectural direction, influence large, diverse cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders, and lead architectural initiatives.
• Proven experience in defining and governing enterprise-level or portfolio-level technology architecture.
• Demonstrate strong coordination and business communication skills, with a working knowledge of IT Agile product management methodologies & tools.
• Engage at both technical and non-technical levels with IT and skill teams, locally and globally, and the ability to translate business strategy/requirements into technical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence geographically diverse teams, stakeholders and skill team leads, fostering a collaborative environment and driving alignment on strategic decisions.
• Proven business and IT analysis skills to identify solutions that provide measurable business value.
• Knowledge in Design Thinking and System Thinking principles to create holistic, customer-centric solutions.
• Deep expertise in API design and management platforms (e.g. Mulesoft, APIGEE) and relevant data security standards.
• Proficiency in modern web technologies including React, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, MFE and MACH Architecture.
• Proven experience designing and implementing solutions leveraging modern cloud platforms
• Experience with architectural frameworks, methodologies and tools (e.g., TOGAF, SAFe)
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including DevOps, and deep expertise in backend technologies such as Java and SpringBoot for developing microservices and containerized applications.
• Experience with content management systems (e.g. AEM) and/or CRM platforms (e.g. Salesforce) will be beneficial.
• Experience at delivering external customer solutions with a focus on APIs and/or ecommerce will be highly regarded.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and govern end-to-end technology architecture for the IMG Ford Pro product portfolio, ensuring alignment with product vision and strategic business goals. This will include addressing complex integrations with existing globally delivered Pro/FCSD products.
• Assess feature requirements against external partner capabilities, including API definitions and design, to document and assess technical gaps and determine development requirements considering performance efficiency and optimized cost.
• Develop solution options by analyzing and translating desired business strategy & capabilities into solution concepts and models and develop recommendations to deliver business value.
• Collaborate closely with product teams, providing architectural guidance and performing technical assessments of internal and external platforms and tools (covering service interoperability, infrastructure, scalability, security, availability, data handling, licensing, global footprint, etc.) to inform product decisions.
• Identify and manage technical debt across the product portfolio, developing strategies for its reduction and prevention.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationship with business stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor on technology solutions and providing architectural guidance in support of new business opportunities.
• Contribute to the development of product group roadmaps and strategies, ensuring alignment with business objectives and emerging technology trends and overarching architectural direction and governance.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts like, architecture working document, technical architecture diagram, etc. to depict proposed solution and support implementation.
• Work with product teams to define and document the future state and assess the cost, risk and business value of architecture alternatives.
• Drive architectural vision, principles and standards across the Ford Pro product portfolio within IMG, ensuring synergy and reusability where appropriate.
• Develop prototypes and POCs to demonstrate new ideas or illustrate the use of new technologies and how to apply them within Ford systems.