Lead Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company

Chennai, tamil nadu, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

31 Aug, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

02 Jun, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Google Cloud Spanner, CI/CD, BigQuery, Dataflow, Technical Leadership, DevOps, Customer Analytics, Big Data, Strategic Planning, Stakeholder Management, Mentoring, API Design, Cloud-Native Solutions

Industry

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

Description

What You’ll Do * Lead Technical Strategy & Architecture on GCP: Drive the end-to-end technical strategy and architectural vision for new platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives across various Ford business units. This includes defining and implementing best practices for scalable, resilient, and performant solutions leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP). * Architect & Implement Cloud-Native Solutions: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to design, advocate for, and implement advanced platform features and capabilities, with a strong focus on GCP Microservices architectures (e.g., Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GKE) and their related tools. * Optimize Performance with Google Cloud Spanner: Drive operational excellence by architecting and optimizing for exceptional performance, high availability, and real-time responsiveness of critical APIs and data services, particularly leveraging the global consistency and scalability of Google Cloud Spanner for mission-critical data. * Advance Cloud Automation & DevOps: Implement sophisticated automation, CI/CD pipelines, and lifecycle management initiatives on GCP, fostering a culture of continuous delivery, reuse, and efficient resource management. * Data Platform Innovation: Analyze existing products and complex datasets to identify business value, drive data quality improvements, and discover technical opportunity areas for leveraging advanced GCP data services (e.g., BigQuery, Dataflow). * Data-Driven Product Development: Utilize data-driven approaches, including product experiments, user interviews, and metrics analysis, to gather customer feedback, validate assumptions, and continuously improve the product experience, ensuring our GCP-based solutions meet evolving user needs. * Hands-on Technical Leadership: Work hands-on with development teams, providing deep technical guidance and mentorship, to prioritize, plan, and deliver features that meet stringent product requirements and architectural standards on GCP. * Executive Communication: Conduct technical product reviews and effectively communicate program status, complex technical issues, risks, and strategic plans to executive leadership.

Responsibilities

Lead the technical strategy and architectural vision for scalable cloud-native platform capabilities on GCP. Drive operational excellence through the implementation of microservices, data services, and sophisticated DevOps automation.