Plant Digital Solutions Architect

Ford; Kentucky; On-site; USD 99,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Flexible family care days

Tuition assistance

Paid time off & holidays

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford Energy seeks a hands-on software specialist to design and build new applications and tools for production operations. You will connect plant data, create dashboards, and contribute to the initial MES integrations, delivering end-to-end solutions aligned with FPS standards.

The role requires 3–5 years of experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and cloud platform exposure (preferably GCP). A mix of low-code and custom development options is encouraged to achieve rapid, reliable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in electrical, automation, or computer engineering; computer science.
• 3–5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience designing and building software applications or tools from the ground up, including ownership of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience gathering requirements from business or operational stakeholders and translating them into working software.
• Hands-on experience with a cloud platform; Google Cloud Platform preferred, with AWS or Azure experience also welcome.

Responsibilities

• Partner with team leaders to identify needs and design, build, test, deploy, and support digital applications and workflows.
• Balance build-versus-buy, low-code, and custom development options.
• Align digital solutions with FPS priorities and support adoption through training, documentation, and deployment planning.
• Connect applications to plant and enterprise systems (MES, IIoT, ERP, SCADA, PLCs).
• Build and maintain data pipelines, APIs, and semantic models for consistent production data.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools for real-time SQDCMEP decisions and data traceability.
• Maintain data quality, master data, metadata, and documentation; troubleshoot issues.
• Administer SharePoint and automate workflows with low-code/no-code tools.
• Ensure solutions follow cybersecurity and IT/OT security standards.
• Lead root-cause analysis and collaborate to pilot and scale improvements.

Skills

Python

SQL

REST APIs

GraphQL

FastAPI/Flask

React/Vue

Low-code tools

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical, automation, or computer engineering; computer science

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Composer/Airflow

Looker/LookML

dbt

Cube.js

Job description

Ford Energy seeks a hands-on software specialist to design and build new applications and tools for production operations. You will connect plant data, create dashboards, and contribute to the initial MES integrations, delivering end-to-end solutions aligned with FPS standards.

The role requires 3–5 years of experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and cloud platform exposure (preferably GCP). A mix of low-code and custom development options is encouraged to achieve rapid, reliable outcomes.