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Ford Motor Company

Senior Engineering Manager

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JOB DESCRIPTION

  • Transform teams from a project mindset towards a product mindset
  • Engineering leadership role (LL6) overseeing design and delivery of a complex ecommerce Finance journey experience based micro services ecosystem
  • This team is responsible for the systems and technology powering the Finance and other core product related experiences on ford.com and the other regional markets, as part of the wholistic Omni-Channel, global, platform Commerce team
  • In partnership with the principal architect, who is responsible for overall architecture & design, build and deliver a modern, greenfield open stack platform based on MACH architecture principles
  • Model the use of modern software engineering practices (TDD BDD, CI/CD, Shift left, 12 factor applications, API first design language etc..) to support integration with existing Ford software products as well as external cloud-based services.
  • Collaborate with Ford's Enterprise Architecture organization to rationalize technologies, further leverage current technology offerings already in use, and identify gaps/opportunities.
  • Implement a talent system to review existing team capabilities (internal and external) and build and promote practices to develop a world-class software engineering team.
  • Strategize & work with senior leaders across Ford's engineering organization to make significant, measurable impact on a global scale by innovating and operating with an iterative, agile, and user-centric perspective

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Responsible for the evolution and delivery of next generation eCommerce customer experience platforms.
  • Bring commerce platform engineering expertise and experience to significantly improve Ford's current capabilities and ensure these platforms can grow to meet increasing demands
  • Establish a platform improvement roadmap that describes key areas of priority based on assessment of current capabilities and identifies key dependencies
  • Identify and recommend related enterprise foundational technology capabilities and improvements or business model changes that should be pursued to improve our customer platform capability
  • Contribute to Ford's Product Driven Organization (PDO) model by identifying improvements and areas that help to reduce dependencies and increase autonomy for teams to delivery.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members
  • Strong hands-on Software engineering/ programming/ solution design experience
  • Experience/Awareness of Microservices architecture, Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and/or performance testing.
  • Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.
  • Conversant in multiple programming languages. Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics of a microservices driven eCommerce architecture
  • Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability, and Containerization technologies
  • Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.
  • Experience/awareness in building structured, semi-Structured and unstructured data stores with a good understanding of RDBMS, No-SQL databases and strong exposure to data modelling, data access patterns, data replication, active-active, polyglot persistence setup.

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About Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln luxury brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer Troller, an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom and a 32% stake in China&#8217&#x3B;s Jiangling Motors. It also has joint ventures in China (Changan Ford), Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho), Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), Turkey (Ford Otosan), and Russia (Ford Sollers). The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family&#x3B; they have minority ownership but the majority of the voting power.

Job ID: 145380119