Senior Enterprise AI Architect — Cloud-Native & Security

Lincoln Motor Company; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 133,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Credit seeks a Principal AI Architect to shape its enterprise AI strategy and deliver secure, cloud-native, production-ready systems. This leadership role will manage AI, cloud, and security architects while owning key architecture work and defining roadmaps.

The role emphasizes an AI-native software delivery lifecycle, governance, and scalable agentic systems, with focus on Google Cloud services and strong security practices. Strong leadership and cross‑team collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive technology experience with 8+ years in architecture.
• Experience architecting AI/ML in production, incl. LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Deep cloud security and Zero Trust for enterprise AI/ML platforms.
• Ability to communicate complex trade-offs to executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-year enterprise AI architecture strategy and roadmaps.
• Architect AI-native software delivery lifecycle with governance and validation.
• Develop reusable patterns, standards, and reference architectures.
• Lead and grow an architecture team across engineering, product, cybersecurity, and risk.

Skills

AI architecture

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Security architecture

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / Engineering / IS / Cybersecurity

Master’s degree in related discipline

Tools

Google Cloud

Vertex AI

GKE

Cloud Run

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Job description

Ford Credit seeks a Principal AI Architect to shape its enterprise AI strategy and deliver secure, cloud-native, production-ready systems. This leadership role will manage AI, cloud, and security architects while owning key architecture work and defining roadmaps.

The role emphasizes an AI-native software delivery lifecycle, governance, and scalable agentic systems, with focus on Google Cloud services and strong security practices. Strong leadership and cross‑team collaboration are essential.