Portfolio Operations Engineer Tech Strategy

Dearborn, MI - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

In this position...

The Portfolio Operations Engineer plays a pivotal role in managing the operations driving the strategic direction and ensuring data quality. This role is instrumental in ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and strategic initiatives. The Portfolio Operations Engineer acts as a steward of the process ensuring strategic direction and data integrity and enables team members to perform their jobs by verifying effective tools and processes are in place. This is a high-touch high-visibility role requiring strong communication and collaboration with engineering product and business counterparts. This work will directly impact the Feature Strategy team and its partners enabling them to make informed decisions and operate efficiently. The ideal candidate should be research-driven process-minded organized proficient in Jira and Confluence and possess a passion for problem-solving.

Responsibilities

What youll do...
Strategic Initiatives & Corporate Objectives: Help drive strategic direction aligning with corporate objectives and initiatives. Analyze data to identify objective alignment inefficiencies and contribute to strategic planning.

Cycle Plan & Funding Integration: Ensure seamless integration of data with cycle plan related information and funding mechanisms. Review data for issues related to broader planning and financial processes.

Future Work & Roadmap Planning: Optimize roadmap planning forecasting resource allocation and funding status establishing clear processes and leveraging dynamic dashboards for transparent visualization. Drive comprehensive roadmap planning and rigorously verify future development work to ensure strategic alignment and viability.

Team Success & Objective Achievement: Define track and monitor KPIs and operational metrics to provide insights and measure progress towards team objectives.

Process Optimization: Identify design and recommend process improvements to streamline operations enhance data quality reduce costs and increase productivity.

Stakeholder Alignment & Advocacy: Engage with and advocate for strategic priorities across engineering product and business. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and effective communication.

Operational Support: Provide data-backed recommendations to quickly mitigate and resolve operational issues.

Cross-functional Meeting Moderation: Manage topics in stakeholder forums maintain clear communication and present findings to leadership.

Qualifications

Youll have...

Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Information Systems or a related field.
3-4 years of project management experience
1-2 years Atlassian tools experience or other project management tool
1-2 years of experience in managing the intake coordination and tracking of change requests
1-2 years of experiencein ensuring requests meet data integrity standards and GPDS timing coordination
1-2 years of experiencewith data modeling strategic data analysis and deriving actionable insights from complex datasets.

Even better you may have...

Proficient in Atlassian tools including Jira Atlas and Confluence
Experienced in global project planning and management
Experience with data validation and root cause analysis
Strong critical thinking skills; proactively identify problems and develop solutions
Research-driven; Ability to create structure and solutions from ambiguous information
Strong analytical organizational and multitasking skills
Independent self-motivated initiative-driven assertive
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Collaborative with cross-functional teams
Committed to Ford plan implementation
Masters degree in Engineering
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent PM certification
Experience with SAFe

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.

This position is a range of salary grades 5-8.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week).

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DescriptionIn this position...The Portfolio Operations Engineer plays a pivotal role in managing the operations driving the strategic direction and ensuring data quality. This role is instrumental in ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and strategic initiatives. The Portfolio Operations Eng...