# Software Engineering Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: This position is a range of salary grade LL6.
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- Software Engineering
- Agile Framework
- Lean methodology
- eXtreme Programming
- Java
- Spring Boot
- REACT
- Cloud services
- Platform knowledge
- Modern databases
- Continuous integration/continuous delivery tools
- Pipelines
- GCP Dataflow
- Apache Beam
- Workflow orchestration

### Nice to have
- Cloud-native applications
- Cloud platforms
- API economy
- Highly available consumer-ready Internet properties
- Technical platforms