Description- Engineering leadership role (LL6 overseeing design and delivery of a complex Dealer Management Systems integrations with micro service ecosystem.
- The GXP team is responsible for the systems and technology powering the Mobile Service scheduling Dealer Experience and customer service scheduling experiences for inperson Pickup & Delivery and Mobile Service on FordPass Tier3Web sites for retail customers enable Ford Pro business. and the other regional markets as part of the wholistic OmniChannel global platform Commerce team
- Model the use of modern software engineering practices (TDD BDD CI/CD Shift left API first design language etc.. to support integration with existing Ford software products as well as external cloudbased services.
- Collaborate with Fords 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 worldclass software engineering team.
- Provide thought leadership for the development structure technology of Ford with skills in strategic planning goal setting processes development and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams.
- Strategize & work with senior leaders across Fords engineering organization to make significant measurable impact on a global scale by innovating and operating with an iterative agile and usercentric perspective.
Responsibilities- Global. Team members will be in India US and/or Mexico
- Provide engineering leadership for 2 product teams
- Help business partners understand 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.
QualificationsLeadership Skills:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members.
- Proven facilitation skills able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation.
- Effectively work with crossfunctional teams across the organization inside and outside of the technology and software organization
- Ability to lead through change
Functional/Technical Skills:
- 12 years of Strong handson experience in software engineering programming and solution design.
- Experience or awareness of microservices architecture cloudnative architectures eventdriven architectures APIs domaindriven design and public cloud (Google Cloud).
- Familiarity with serverless technologies Kubernetes Docker and DevOps practices for building scalable reliable and available solutions as well as performance testing.
- A strong technical background with the ability to be handson earn respect and mentor top individual technical talent.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages with thorough knowledge of multithreading concurrency and parallel processing concepts including scalability performance and consistency in a microservicesdriven eCommerce architecture.
- Experience with cloudnative systems transactional systems multitenancy high availability (fivenines) and containerization technologies.
- Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud security SRE and DevOps.
- Experience or awareness in building structured semistructured and unstructured data stores with a solid understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases and strong exposure to data modeling and data access patterns.
- A passion for AI models.
Awareness of the DMS partners integration landscape
Required Experience:
Manager