Software Engineering Manager Dealer Platforms

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

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If youre looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape enhance the customer experience and improve peoples lives this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

As part of the M&S Dealer Platforms team the Software Platform Engineer Manager is expected to lead software craftsmanship for multiple product teams related to the M&S Dealer Platform product journeys and apply platform engineering principles to significantly enhance Fords current dealer capabilities ensuring that application platforms can grow while meeting increasing demands.

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices and full-stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company

• Establish a platform improvement roadmap that describes key areas of priorities based on the assessments of current capabilities.

• Identify critical dependencies and recommend related enterprise foundational technology capabilities and improvements to senior IT and business partner management focusing on software engineering/programming/solution designs.

• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends experimenting with and learning new technologies participating in internal & external technology communities mentoring other members of the engineering community and from time to time being asked to code or evaluate code

• Utilize Microservices Cloud-Native Event-driven architectures and languages like React Java HTML/CSS TypeScript SQL Python Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases Public Cloud (Google Cloud) and Serverless Kubernetes

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 8 overall years of experience building and maintaining complex enterprise web applications in microservice product architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in leading software engineering delivery
• At least 3 years experience with cloud computing (AWS Azure Google Cloud)
• At least 3 years of people management and agile delivery experience
• Possess in-depth expertise in core technologies including Java Spring Spring Boot RESTful APIs messaging frameworks container-based development (Docker) Elasticsearch relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) NoSQL solutions (Azure Cosmos DB or Cassandra) and event-driven architecture solutions like Kafka.
• Experience in successfully migrating legacy applications to modern cloud-based architectures utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery process and tools testing frameworks and practices (preferably GitHub Ready API Terraform Tekton etc.).
• Understand the testing pyramid develop a suite of unit tests and API tests and adopt a test-as-you-code strategy.
  

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 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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: position is a range of salary grades LL6.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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