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# Director - Vehicle Software Platform Architecture

- **Company:** Ford Motor Company
- **Location:** Allen Park, MI, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Cloud Engineering, Distributed Systems, Software Architecture, Software Systems, Systems Architecture, Digital Twin
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3331039792&tx=DT10596UYT&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 12+ years of industry experience, with significant portion architecting and/or leading execution of complex, distributed software systems at scale - automotive, off-highway, aerospace, defense, cloud/IoT, or similar domains
 * Demonstrated experience building or driving adoption of software architecture at a portfolio/fleet/platform scale, not a single product
 * Experience defining or governing architectural standards and strategies that scaled across many teams or products
 * Proven ability to drive architectural adoption and change management across large, previously siloed engineering organizations
 * Strong executive communication and strategic influence skills
 * Proven ability to build and lead high-performance teams

You may also have...

 * Experience architecting systems where software must operate reliably across variable, evolving, or heterogeneous hardware
 * Experience architecting the flow of data and control between distributed/embedded systems and cloud platforms, including digital twin or fleet-telemetry patterns
 * Experience with modern software-defined systems practices (e.g., service-oriented or cloud-native architectures applied to embedded/distributed systems, OTA lifecycle management)
 * Experience guiding architecture transitions across hardware or platform generations
 * Experience with mixed-criticality, safety-relevant system architecture
 * Experience building or scaling virtual validation environments (SIL/MIL/HIL, digital twins, cloud-based simulation)

## Description

* Own the vehicle software platform architecture roadmap and lead its execution across a large, cross-functional engineering organization
 * Translate architectural strategy into practical guidance, standards, and governance that engineering teams can act on
 * Ensure the platform architecture scales effectively across many products, variants, and markets over time
 * Ensure the vehicle platform's connection to the cloud is architected coherently, reliably, and securely as part of the overall system
 * Partner with program teams, functional domain leaders, and hardware/electronics teams to align the architecture roadmap with product plans and influence hardware direction based on platform needs
 * Build organizational alignment and sustained adoption of the architecture across a large, previously siloed engineering organization
 * Guide how architectural change is sequenced and introduced across current and future platform generations
 * Represent the architecture strategy and its execution progress to senior leadership and cross-functional executive stakeholders
 * Build, mentor, and grow a team of platform software architects


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