Information Security Architect, BlueOval Battery Plant Michigan

Job Description

Make history and make the future at BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

If you're ready to change the way the world moves, join us at BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, a new state-of-the-art facility in Marshall, Michigan. You'll be a key part of the launch team that will help bring the electrification revolution to driveways, job sites, and highways everywhere. BlueOval Battery Park Michigan will produce the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells to power the next-generation Ford EV passenger vehicles and trucks under development.

This new wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company will create more than 1,700 jobs when production begins in 2026.

This role will start remote and then will be working hybrid out of Marshall, MI, with expectation to be on-Site at Marshall once offices are available (relocation package available).

At BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, you will...

• Use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions.
• Build and lead an agile team to deliver the advanced technology that drives the future.
• Create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought, and foster leadership in others.
• Be part of the historic transformation of the automotive industry .

You'll also...

• Responsible for delivering architecture solutions for IT and OT cybersecurity, for risk management, and for compliance activities.
• Working with teams, management, and stakeholders to conceptualize, design, build, test, and release systems in environments with complex IT and OT systems.
• Assessing the architecture of technology domains such as Network, Identity and Access Management, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Detection and Monitoring, for both IT and OT systems.
• Documenting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and playbooks.
• Creating relationships with team members and internal business customers and acting as an information security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for others to provide expert knowledge on an ongoing basis.
• Identifying and reporting potential gaps in the environment that poses an overall risk to the organization.
• Reviewing and approving rules for firewalls, VPNs, routers, IDS/IPS, and servers.
• Participating in the security on-call rotation as needed.

Capabilities Required:

• Emotionally intelligent team member who remains calm in ambiguous situations.
• Able to align team members from different backgrounds and cultures to achieve business strategy.
• Strong leadership skills and experience leading, attracting, and developing strong results-oriented teams.
• Experience managing high degrees of complexity in processes and communication with all levels of leadership.
• Strong business acumen and project management skills
• Collaborative leadership style is necessary to influence and build meaningful relationships with all cross functional teams.
• Good communicator with a proven ability to build trust, influence, and foster relationships.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 7+ years of experience in information security and/or IT risk management with a focus on information security, engineering, and reliability.
• Deep technical knowledge of secure systems architecture principles, security and compliance tools, data protection, and access models.
• Ability to travel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree.
• 10+ years of Information Security Architecture experience.
• Experience succeeding in high levels of complexity, exposure, to multiple business issues, ambiguity, and conflict.
• Hands-on development, engineering, networking, cloud and/or other technical work experience.
• Experience with common information security management frameworks, such as International Standards Organization (ISO) 2700x, NIST-CSF series and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
• Experience with Microsoft, Palo Alto, and Cisco security technologies.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to the BlueOval Battery Park Michigan facility, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage,
• Flexible family care, parental leave, and more.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members,
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, and paid time off

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

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It is anticipated that within 30 days of your employment with Ford, you will become a secondee of BlueOval Battery Michigan LLC. A secondee is an employee who will continue to be employed by Ford Motor Company but work at BlueOval Battery Michigan, Ford's wholly owned subsidiary. Afterwards it is anticipated that within 8 months of your employment with Ford, you will become an employee of the Ford's fully owned subsidiary of BlueOval Battery Michigan LLC. The terms and conditions of your employment with the separate BlueOval Battery Michigan LLC company will be communicated to you in advance of your transition to that entity. You will remain an at-will employee at all times during your employment with Ford or any Ford affiliate or subsidiary with which you later become employed.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Unless expressly agreed by you, Ford, and your later employer in writing, you will remain an at-will employee at all times during your employment with Ford or any Ford affiliate or subsidiary with which you later become employed.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-.

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