Director – Vehicle Software Platform Architecture
Core
Lead the execution and application of Ford's vehicle software platform architecture strategy, ensuring it connects coherently with the cloud and scales across many products and markets.
Role type
Director, Vehicle Software Platform Architecture
Builds
A governed, scalable vehicle software platform foundation for differentiated automotive products
Domain
Automotive / Software-defined vehicles / Cloud-connected systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Architecting complex distributed software systems at scale, defining and governing architectural standards, driving architectural adoption across large siloed organizations, strategic influence, building high-performance teams
Preferred skills
Architecting systems with heterogeneous hardware, designing data/control flows between embedded systems and cloud, modern software-defined practices (cloud-native, OTA), guiding architecture transitions across hardware generations, mixed-criticality safety-relevant architecture, scaling virtual validation environments
Technologies
Cloud platforms, IoT, digital twins, OTA lifecycle management, SIL/MIL/HIL simulation, service-oriented architectures
Responsibilities
Own the vehicle software platform architecture roadmap and lead its execution, translate architectural strategy into practical guidance and governance, ensure platform scalability across products and variants, architect coherent cloud connectivity, partner with program and hardware teams to align architecture with product plans, build organizational alignment and adoption, guide architectural change sequencing, represent strategy to senior leadership, build and mentor a team of platform software architects
Seniority
Director, leadership level 4, strategy & mentorship
