Strategic Enterprise Architect: Roadmaps & Transformation

Ford; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid holidays & time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Enterprise Business Architect to translate strategy into repeatable EA processes, tools, and roadmaps. You will bridge business and IT, analyze current operations, and design future-state investment strategies aligned with goals, processes, structure, and technology.

You will lead workshops with senior leaders to gather requirements, develop capability maps, and drive governance and standards across the enterprise. This role is remote within the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in business/enterprise architecture, strategy or management consulting.
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools (ServiceNow, YouDesign).
• Strong knowledge of business architecture frameworks and methodologies (TOGAF, BIZBOK).
• Proven experience developing capability models, value stream maps and target operating models.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leadership to translate business strategy into actionable capability maps, value streams and target operating models.
• Build and maintain enterprise capability models to uncover gaps, redundancies and investment opportunities.
• Analyze current-state business processes and organizational structures to identify inefficiencies and drive improvements.
• Provide input into the design of future-state business architectures including process redesign, organizational realignment and capability roadmaps.
• Lead workshops and interviews with business unit leaders, subject matter experts and technology teams to gather requirements and build consensus on architectural direction.
• Establish and maintain business architecture standards / frameworks and governance processes for enterprise-wide consistency.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Solution, Data and Technical Architects to align business architecture with IT architecture and solution design.
• Support investment planning by linking business capabilities to strategic initiatives and identifying dependencies, risks and value drivers.
• Drive adoption of new business models by communicating architectural vision and rationale to stakeholders across all levels.
• Curate, organize and maintain learning content to support enterprise architecture learning pathways and employee development.

Skills

Analytical skills

Strategic thinking

Facilitation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication & change management

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Information Systems

Tools

ServiceNow

YouDesign

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Enterprise Business Architect to translate strategy into repeatable EA processes, tools, and roadmaps. You will bridge business and IT, analyze current operations, and design future-state investment strategies aligned with goals, processes, structure, and technology.

You will lead workshops with senior leaders to gather requirements, develop capability maps, and drive governance and standards across the enterprise. This role is remote within the United States.