Ford Credit Europe is transforming how customers access vehicle finance.

As an Enterprise / Solution Architect in the Global Architecture team, you will play a key role in our journey to design and develop the next generation of financial platforms.

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.

- 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 contemporary 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
- 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.

Skills: Spring Boot, React, Enterprise Architecture, Gcp, Graphql, Solution Architecture

Experience: 8.00-13.00 Years

📌 FCE Solution Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Ford
📍 Chennai