Senior Data Engineer, Integrated Services Data Warehouse (ISDW)

We made history and now we work to transform the future for our customers our communities and our families. Youll see your work on the road every day helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Do you believe data tells the real story We do! Redefining mobility requires quality data metrics and analytics as well as insightful interpreters and analysts. Thats whereGlobal Data Insight & Analyticsmakes an impact. We advise leadership on business conditions customer needs and the competitive landscape. With our support key decision makers can act in meaningful positive ways. Join us and use your data expertise and analytical skills to drive evidence-based timely decision making.

We are seeking an exceptional highly experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our this role you will design build and scale our next-generation big data infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and integrate state-of-the-art Agentic AI systems. You will play a pivotal role in enabling real-time data streaming advanced analytics and automated decision-making pipelines that directly influence our global subscription and integrated services products.

If you are passionate about high-performance computing distributed architectures and building intelligent agents that operate on massive datasets we want to hear from you.

• Data Architecture & Pipeline Engineering: Architect construct and optimize highly scalable reliable and secure end-to-end data ingestion processing and distribution pipelines.
• Distributed Computing: Leverage PySpark and Google Cloud technologies to process terabyte-to-petabyte-scale datasets ensuring optimal execution performance and cost-efficiency.
• Agentic AI & LLM Integration: Design deploy and maintain robust Agentic AI solutions (including LLM-based autonomous agents retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems vector database integrations and automated tool-use pipelines) that run on top of enterprise data assets.
• CI/CD & DevOps Automation: Establish maintain and advocate for modern CI/CD practices across data engineering pipelines ensuring automated testing integration and continuous deployment of data code and ML/AI models.
• Subscription Platform Enablement: Partner with product and platform teams to design data models supporting complex subscription metrics recurring billing customer entitlements metered usage and churn predictive analytics.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Collaborate closely with Data Scientists AI Researchers Product Managers and Software Engineers to align data architectures with strategic business objectives. Mentoring and guiding junior engineers in technical best practices.
• Data Governance & Security: Champion enterprise-grade data security regulatory compliance (e.g. GDPR CCPA) and data quality monitoring across all platform components.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Software Engineering or a closely related engineering field.
• Big Data Platform Experience: 7 years of hands-on experience in building managing and scaling enterprise-grade Big Data platforms and distributed data systems.
• PySpark Mastery: 6 years of strong hands-on experience writing production-grade PySpark code with deep knowledge of Spark optimization techniques partition tuning memory management and debugging.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): 3 years of experience architecting and implementing data solutions on GCP with deep technical proficiency in:
  • BigQuery: Advanced analytical SQL partitioning clustering and performance optimization.
  • Dataflow & DataProc: Managed Apache Beam pipelines and Spark/Hadoop clusters.
  • Spanner: High-availability relational database workloads.
  • Astronomer / Apache Airflow: Sophisticated DAG orchestration and workflow scheduling.
• Agentic AI Engineering: Hands-on experience building and deploying Agentic AI solutions (e.g. autonomous AI agents multi-agent orchestrations tools integration with LLMs prompt engineering frameworks and cognitive search applications).
• CI/CD Pipelines: Hands-on experience building maintaining and automating robust CI/CD pipelines (utilizing tools such as GitHub Actions GitLab CI Tekton Jenkins or equivalent) to deploy data models code and infrastructure.
• Domain Familiarity: Practical familiarity with Integrated Services and Subscriptions platforms (such as subscription billing lifecycles user entitlement systems usage-based billing and digital customer journeys).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Education: Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Data Engineering or a highly quantitative field is a strong plus.
• Certifications:
  • GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification is a plus.
  • GCP Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent Cloud Developer Certifications are a plus.
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (Python is required; Scala Java or Go is a plus).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools particularly Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration platforms including Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases data warehousing concepts and data lakehouse architectures (e.g. Delta Lake Iceberg).
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical architectures to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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 childcare 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 salary grade 7 and ranges from $99600-$166600.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is available for this position.

Domestic relocation is not available for this position.

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This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per week.

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