Director of Software Engineering at Ford Global Career Site

, , United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

11 Oct, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Microservices Architecture, Cloud-Native Architectures, Event-Driven Architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud, Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, Scalable Solutions, Performance Testing, Cloud Native Systems, Multi-Tenancy, Containerization Technologies, Data Modelling, Data Access Patterns

Industry

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

Description

Build a modern, greenfield open stack platform based on MACH architecture principles for a large-scale ecommerce initiative with controlled data duplication. 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. Provide thought leadership for the development, structure, technology of Ford with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams Provide technical leadership to multiple product lines across eCommerce platforms Responsible for the futuristic architecture landscape, evolution, and delivery of next gen platforms. Establish a platform improvement roadmap that describes key areas of priority based on assessment of current capabilities and identifies key dependencies 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. Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members Ability to lead through change 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. 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.

Responsibilities

The Director of Software Engineering will build a modern open stack platform for a large-scale ecommerce initiative and provide technical leadership across multiple product lines. They will establish a platform improvement roadmap and contribute to Ford's Product Driven Organization model.