Engineering leadership role overseeing design and delivery of a global; complex; micro service ecosystem.
Support a delivery team that is responsible for the systems; technology; quality; and delivery of digital capabilities.
Scope includes but not limited to headless digital ordering capabilities supporting omnichannel (Ford.com eCommerce, Mobile, In-Vehicle) order management capabilities serving global markets.
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.
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.
Transform teams from a project mindset towards a product mindset.
Global. Team members will be in India, US and/or Europe.
Provide engineering leadership up to 2 product lines across eCommerce platforms.
Help business partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and releases through careful and deliberate prioritization.
Initial team size will include around 10 positions of associates and purchased service capacity with external partners.

Requirements

Conversant in digital ecommerce processes and technologies.
Experience evolving agile software delivery practices and processes.
Experience/Awareness of Microservices architecture, Cloud-Native architecture, Event-driven architecture, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, GCP Hosting, Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker)
Experience progressing STLC or QA practices and processes.
Experience with progressing DevOps practices and processes.
Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud and or security.
Hands-on AI engineering or use experience
Strong change management experience.

Benefits

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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Hard Skills & Tools

microservices architecturecloud-native architectureevent-driven architectureAPIsDomain-Driven DesignGCP HostingserverlessKubernetesDockerDevOps practices

Soft Skills

engineering leadershipstrategic planninggoal settingprocess developmentbudgetingchange managementcollaborationuser-centric perspectivetalent developmentiterative development