Staff Business Architect

As a Staff Business Architect - Transformation Lead within Ford's ADVEV organization, you will lead high-impact business and technology transformation initiatives that enable Ford's electric vehicle strategy. This role will focus on defining and delivering new business capabilities, operating models, and cross-functional processes that support the evolving needs of Ford's EV programs.

You will work across Engineering, Manufacturing, IT, Supply Chain, Logistics, and other key functions to identify capability gaps, clarify business problems, design future-state solutions, and drive adoption of new processes and tools. Your leadership will be essential as EVDD tools, emerging capabilities, and legacy Ford systems continue to converge.

This is a highly collaborative role requiring strategic thinking, strong business architecture discipline, stakeholder influence, and the ability to drive change in a dynamic environment.

We made history and now we work to transform the future - for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company's vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You'll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

What you'll do…

• Lead end-to-end transformation initiatives that establish and mature business capabilities aligned to ADVEV and Ford EV objectives.
• Partner with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Manufacturing, IT, Supply Chain, Logistics, and related functions to drive process, tool, data, and organizational change.
• Define clear business problem statements, current-state assessments, and future-state operating models using structured business architecture and process-mapping techniques.
• Conduct discovery with stakeholders to identify pain points, bottlenecks, capability gaps, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Translate complex business needs into actionable strategies, requirements, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups, balancing competing priorities and influencing decisions without direct authority.
• Manage transformation scope, priorities, risks, dependencies, timelines, cost considerations, and quality outcomes in a dynamic environment.
• Facilitate business process validation, acceptance, and adoption to ensure sustainable implementation of new capabilities.
• Analyze the business impact of proposed changes versus inaction, and develop mitigation strategies for identified risks.
• Incorporate organizational change management practices, including communication, training, rollout planning, and stakeholder readiness.
• Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize, and scale processes across the enterprise.
• Maintain agility and resilience while navigating evolving priorities, ambiguity, organizational complexity, and implementation challenges.

What you'll do…

• Lead end-to-end transformation initiatives that establish and mature business capabilities aligned to ADVEV and Ford EV objectives.
• Partner with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Manufacturing, IT, Supply Chain, Logistics, and related functions to drive process, tool, data, and organizational change.
• Define clear business problem statements, current-state assessments, and future-state operating models using structured business architecture and process-mapping techniques.
• Conduct discovery with stakeholders to identify pain points, bottlenecks, capability gaps, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Translate complex business needs into actionable strategies, requirements, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups, balancing competing priorities and influencing decisions without direct authority.
• Manage transformation scope, priorities, risks, dependencies, timelines, cost considerations, and quality outcomes in a dynamic environment.
• Facilitate business process validation, acceptance, and adoption to ensure sustainable implementation of new capabilities.
• Analyze the business impact of proposed changes versus inaction, and develop mitigation strategies for identified risks.
• Incorporate organizational change management practices, including communication, training, rollout planning, and stakeholder readiness.
• Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize, and scale processes across the enterprise.
• Maintain agility and resilience while navigating evolving priorities, ambiguity, organizational complexity, and implementation challenges.