Software Engineering Manager

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to provide engineering leadership to multiple product lines within the Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD). FCSD is a true one-stop shop, offering comprehensive diagnostics, repair, and service capabilities for a full portfolio of electrified, hybrid, and internal combustion vehicles globally.

Responsibilities

Provide Engineering Leadership

• Provide engineering leadership to multiple product lines within FCSD
• Help business partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and releases
• Design and deliver industry-leading products and services to maximize value and productivity for commercial customers

Ensure Software Engineering Excellence

• Ensure software engineering excellence (e.g. best practices and quality) is achieved within the FCSD Tech product line
• Collaborate with other Product Line Anchors to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and build reusable API services

Provide Thought Leadership

• Provide thought leadership for the development, structure, technology, and tools used within FCSD
• Innovate and operate with an iterative, agile, and user-centric perspective

Communicate Technology Strategy

• Clearly communicate technology strategy and vision to team members and internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrate software engineering excellence through actively coding, pairing, and performing code and architecture reviews with the software engineers within the FCSD Tech product line

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related
• 5+ years experience with progressive leadership responsibilities in Software Engineering, Architecture, and Agile Framework
• Experience with Lean methodology & eXtreme Programming
• Must be able to operationalize and assist teams with abstract technology concepts
• Strong communication, collaborative, and influencing skills
• Proven ability to work closely with senior leadership
• Strong personal presence and capabilities to resolve technical concerns
• Demonstrated ability to drive development of highly technical technology services and capabilities
• 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
• Experience 3+ years with building and supporting cloud-native applications leveraging Java, Spring Boot, and REACT tech stack
• Experience with cloud services and platform knowledge
• Modern databases (Relational and non-relational)
• Continuous integration/continuous delivery tools and pipelines, such as Tekton, Jenkins, Terraform, SonarQube, Maven, Gradle, Harness, Apigee X, etc.
• Experience developing and deploying to cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud Platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure
• Experience with GCP Dataflow (Apache Beam) and workflow orchestration

Benefits

• 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 Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time