DescriptionIn this position...
Provide technical leadership to multiple product lines within Ford Pro.
Help business partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and releases.
Design and deliver industryleading products and services to maximize value and productivity for commercial customers.
ResponsibilitiesWhat youll do...
- Ensure engineering excellence (e.g. best practices and quality) is achieved within product group.
- Collaborate with other Product Line Anchors to reduce complexity across the portfolio enhance interoperability between services and make key design decisions.
- Provide thought leadership for the development structure technology and tools used within Ford Pro.
- Innovate and operate with an iterative agile and usercentric perspective.
- Clearly communicate technology strategy and vision to team members and internal and external stakeholders.
QualificationsYoull have...
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
- Experience 10 years with progressive responsibilities in Software Engineering Architecture and Agile Framework.
- Must be able to operationalize and assist teams with abstract technology concepts.
- Strong demonstrated competencies on cloud and digital platforms.
- Strong communication collaborative and influencing skills.
- Proven ability to work closely with senior leadership.
- Strong personal presence and capabilities to resolve technical concerns.
- Experience with cloud services and platform knowledge.
- Demonstrated ability to drive development of highly technical technology services and capabilities.
- Experience with Lean methodology & eXtreme Programming.
- Demonstrated understanding and ability to drive API economy and solutions
- Demonstrated understanding and ability to drive highly available consumer ready Internet properties and technical platforms. Experience collaborating with engineers designers and product owners.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience
- Ability to work collaboratively and navigate complex decision making in a rapidly changing environment
- Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.
Even better you may have...
- Technical expert who has experience building platforms and underlying services for reuse.
- Understands business priorities and technical feasibility in order to prioritize the platform backlog identify dependencies and manage risks.
- Ability to jump in and assist product lines and product teams to resolve technical blockers.
- Focus on delivering product value through reusable services and technologies that other product teams can leverage.
- Initiates or translates the product road map into manageable product features in the backlog through quarterly scoping sessions.
- Work handson with the product teams to prioritize plan and deliver the platform foundations capabilities.
- Attends Ford Pro Technology councils and cascades relevant information to appropriate members of their product line.
- Identifies areas within software delivery process and application ecosystem that require cohesion across the platform and addresses them through common engineer Assess the technology feasibility of the product group roadmaps.
- Employs and/or champions Agile software processes culture best practices and techniques.
- Actively works to identify and remove/ mitigate risks and blockers to product delivery.
- Assesses the overall health of the product and prompts key decisions to move it forward.
Required Experience:
Manager