Job Responsibilities
Managing Technology Standards for Enterprise over the technology
lifecycle: 20 hours/week
Mobile Computing/Wireless Architecture and Strategy development:
10 hours/week
Client and Presentation Architecture strategy: 10 hours/week
Architecture/Design Consulting: 10 hours/week
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Job Requirements
Preferred education:
(1) Computer science/software engineering/Applied Math Masters
Degree, plus MBA.
(2) MS Comp Sci, Software Engineering, Applied Math
(3) BS Comp Sci, Software Engineering, Applied Math, plus MBA
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Uppers
Ability to have an impact on large corporation by setting standards; ability
explore and research new technologies; opportunities to interact with Ford
Research organization, and university researchers.
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Downers
Political and commercial arrangements can sometimes influence
the 'expected outcome' of research efforts. Technology
Management process can be cumbersome and bureaucratic.
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Lifestyle
About 50 hours per week. Occasional travel locally, nationally, and
internationally (travel a few times per year, usually)
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Compensation
base: $96K
Bonus: varies -- $250 - $10,000, depending on corporate profit
performance, warranty cost performance, and customer
satisfaction scores.
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Advice to Jobseekers
Outsourcing trend of development jobs likely to continue in
future; enterprise architecture is a 'higher order' activity,
and is probably best kept close to HQ and business customers.
This makes it somewhat resistant to outsourcing. MNote: This is
less true for solutions architecture. Success in this field
requires, technical depth, business savvy, evangalism, and the
ability to articulate why we should all strive for enterprise-
wide 'global optimum' vs. a many (seemingly) independent 'local
optimum'.
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