Roles and Responsibilities:

　　Participation on Local and Central Enterprise Architecture Assurance (EAA) boards

　　Together with other Architects establish the direction for future architectural patterns or new

　　technologies within existing and future Ford IT applications.

　　Creation and review of architecture assessments

　　Responsible for alignment of Solution Architects in IT practices with enterprise initiatives globally

　　Ensures adherence to architecture standards

　　Creates the architecture strategy for applications in the enterprise

　　Manage the development of technology cycle plans for the Product Line/Program concentrating

　　on technologies and components that the company has considered to be declining and/or end of

　　life also responsible for identifying the impact of these technologies on the portfolio.

　　Manage vendor relationships as it pertains to technical architecture including supporting product evaluations and acquisitions, integration, support agreements, and issue resolution. May interact with agency and/or consultants for technical support and communication of future requirements. Represents the Company to the industry within domain of responsibility.Selection Criteria:

　　Full application / system development lifecycle knowledge and experience.

　　Expertise with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods and implementation technologies

　　such as web services.

　　Knowledge of frameworks, architecture patterns and design patterns.

　　Ability to work closely with application developers to ensure the goals of the business are

　　achieved.

　　Proven ability to rapidly learn, evaluate, and integrate new and existing technologies to realizebusiness value.

　　Support Information Standards and Enterprise Data Items

　　Develop Logical Data Model diagrams and LDM dictionaries.

　　Develop Physical Data Model diagrams and PDM dictionaries.

　　Communicate Data Architecture (DA) Artifacts with other Architects

　　Perform Data Quality Analysis and identify data quality issues

　　Requisition ID : 23501