Architect

• Bridge communication between Product Owners, Technical Architects, and Business Leads to align technical roadmaps with business value streams
• Lead blueprinting sessions and joint working sessions to drive consensus on future-state business models and system integrations
• Build relationships across organizational boundaries and contribute to portfolio planning and integration
• Communicate relationships between strategic initiatives, business processes, applications, and technologies
• Develop and deliver training materials and learning sessions on architecture standards and methodologies
• Develop and implement architecture processes, standards, and methodologies
• Perform gap analysis and lead Architecture Governance reviews
• Ensure project-level deliverables align with enterprise standards
• Partner with Portfolio Architects to standardize and make business capability models and process maps reusable across product teams
• Manage architectural deliverables within Jira while maintaining governance requirements within agile delivery cycles

Business Architect

• Define and engineer drive unit and transmission architectures meeting vehicle-level functional, performance, efficiency, durability, cost, timing, packaging, manufacturing, and quality requirements
• Lead technical definition of new drive unit and transmission concepts during Balance Architecture and early new product development phases
• Own Balance Architecture engineering and program deliverables, including scope alignment, requirements definition, architecture tradeoffs, issue resolution, and gate-review readiness
• Lead or provide technical leadership to a Balance Architecture core team
• Translate program objectives into engineering workstreams, design paths, system requirements, and integration plans
• Serve as central technical integrator across production release, design, analysis, validation, software and controls, calibration, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, and program teams
• Drive system and subsystem tradeoff decisions across gears, power transfer, electric machines, lubrication, thermal management, controls, NVH, and related interfaces
• Support future propulsion architecture strategies and transition technical work into downstream execution organizations
• Lead technical reviews and provide data-based recommendations amid ambiguity, limited precedent, aggressive timing, or competing requirements
• Work with suppliers and external engineering partners to mature concepts, assess alternatives, resolve technical gaps, and support program timing
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and act as a technical resource for the broader team
• Help position new product architectures for successful transfer into production execution

Products Architect – Drive Units and Transmissions

• Consult with clients to determine functional and spatial requirements for new structures or renovations
• Prepare information regarding design and specifications of materials, colors, systems, possible costs, and project schedules
• Plan project layouts and integrate engineering elements into a unified design for client review and approval
• Prepare scale drawings and contract documents for building contractors
• Represent clients in obtaining bids and awarding construction contracts
• Administer construction contracts
• Conduct periodic on-site observations to ensure compliance with plans
• Lead by example and mentor others
• Champion collaboration and incorporate diverse perspectives and expertise

Architect jobs in Michigan

Business Architect

Products Architect – Drive Units and Transmissions

Project Architect