IT Product Designer
IT Product Designer
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Job Description
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day roll up our sleeves and build a better world together. At Ford were all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves
Looking for a Technical Product Designer to be part of Manufacturing Digital Engineering IT team. This individual will identify and implement IT solutions that would digitize and automate said business processes to bring enhanced transparency and visibility to Fords extended multitiers supply chain and enable Ford to meet legal and mandatory requirements in the supply chain sustainability space.
The ideal candidate would be a seasoned software engineer who wants to move into a technical leadership role where instead of implementing requirements you lead the development of requirements and work with others for implementation and delivery.
Responsibilities
What youll do...
- Crossfunctional Collaboration:Collaborate with business and technical SMEs to define new capabilities and usecases that meet requirements in the Manufacturing Technologyspace. Engage with the Product Owner and team to define product strategy and roadmap for implementation. Collaborate with internal and external technical peers (Product Managers Enterprise Architects Software Engineers Security Controls Champions and Vendors). Develop relationships and maintain a knowledge of the Ford Production System and processes.
- Product Design Implementation and Delivery:Lead development of requirements features use cases and test scenarios in alignment with different stakeholders. Author process flow and design documents. Work closely with Product Managers and Enterprise Architects to review datasets in source applications and systems within Ford and map functional requirements to data attributes. Working closely with vendors and partners design and create actionable software development and enterprise integration activities to move from solution design to implementation including solution development integration testing and deployment. Generate Metrics Build Deployment Pipelines and Perform System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing. Participate and/or lead incident change and service request related activities including root cause analysis and proactive problem management / defect prevention activities.
- Communication:Clearly communicate vision and strategy to cross functional teams senior leaders and stakeholders to gain alignment. Grow subject matter expertise provide guidance to other team members.
- Live and breathe Agile:Participate in ceremonies that help define the work to be done improve team process and align the team to specific objectives. For instance participate in Daily Standups Story Creation and Backlog Grooming Retrospectives and Epics/SubEpics/Story Acceptance sessions. Ensure effective usage of Jira and derive meaningful insights from Jira like Velocity Throughput etc. to enable the team to go further. Partner with Product Owners / Managers and develop and as required execute test scenarios at various levels (functional user acceptance) within Agile Framework.
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Information Science or a technology related field OR a combination of education and experience
- 2 year with full stack development using Java (Spring Boot) Python and web application development frameworks such as but not limited to JavaScript REACT Angular Karma etc.
- 2 year experience modern databases (Relational and nonrelational) SQL Server Teradata etc.
- Ability to synthesize and visualize complex and occasionally ambiguous concepts and translate them into a list of usecases or an action plan for the team or organization. Ability to lead through influence.
- 2 experience in cloud based development and operations (Azure/AWS/GCP/PCF)
- 1 year experience working with Agile project management software such Jira or Rally
- 1 year experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and pipelines such as: (Jenkins Terraform SonarQube Gradle GitHub)
- Strong global business acumen in Manufacturing and Quality
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to work crossfunctionally building trust and driving success across skill teams (business and product) and leadership levels
- Experience working with external partners including industry experts & consortiums for development and complex integration of industry standards and multiparty solutions. Experience in benchmarking.
- Proactive attitude and not afraid to ask question and ability to operate with an Agile mentality in an ambiguous environment. Good organizational and time management skills.
- Willing to work on a highly collaborative team fulfilling different roles and fill gaps
Even better you may have...
- Masters degree in Information Science
- Proven ability to learn and become productive in new concepts quickly
- Behavioral Leadership (ability to handle uncertain situations and build relationships)
- Experience leading agile software development practices to solution delivery
- High degree of initiative selfmotivation and ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work with multifunctional teams for deliverables and timing
- Curiosity towards new technologies that may benefit the team and a strong desire to learn
- Experience with Design Thinking tools such as Figma InVision Miro Balsamiq etc.
You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent rampup programs subsidized backup 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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For a detailed look at our benefits click here:
position is a range of salary grades 56.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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