Position Overview

We are seeking a Director-level Enterprise Architect to lead identity, API, and AI security governance across the global enterprise, operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure & platforms, and emerging AI technologies.

This role is chartered with establishing governance frameworks for MCP, APIs, Agents, and Skills, while partnering closely with platform, infrastructure, and data/AI teams to shape the future of secure, scalable AI adoption across Ford.

The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on technical credibility across cloud, AI, and security domains with the leadership maturity to build and grow a large, cross-functional team of polyglot architects from the ground up, in a greenfield security architecture practice.

Key Responsibilities

API Security Architecture
- Design and govern secure architecture patterns for Ford's high-traffic, business-critical APIs, embedding security and governance directly into the API lifecycle.
- Partner with platform engineering to strengthen authentication, authorization,



and threat protection across the API gateway ecosystem.
- Champion a shift-left approach to API security and compliance by embedding automated checks directly into the build phase, catching issues early in the development lifecycle. Familiarity with security tooling such as FOSSA, Cycode, 42Crunch, Cloud Armor, PRISMA is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with open-source tools, applying buy vs build diligently and make decisions.
- Building engineering prototypes which is kind of R&D; (POC, Reference architecture), pre- implementation prototypes which are building blocks which perform in pre-production with minor tweaks.

Identity & Access Architecture
- Architect a unified, vendor-agnostic identity fabric across Ford's global enterprise, resolving the complexity of a multi-IdP environment while eliminating vendor lock-in.
- Define contemporary application authorization patterns — including OAuth On-Behalf-Of (OBO) flows and de

📌 Director, Enterprise Architect – Enterprise API, AI Security (Chennai)
🏢 Ford Global
📍 Chennai