# Technical Expert, FNV Diagnostics Cloud

**Company**: Ford of Canada
**Location**: Waterloo, ON
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Expert to join our diagnostics cloud team at Ford of Canada. You will work on developing Java micro-services that handle business-critical tasks such as connected vehicle diagnostics data ingestion, diagnostics data searchability, bulk log searches, stack trace generation, and automated Jira creation. These services manage a high throughput of 100 events/s with large metadata and log payloads.

## Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities for this position include:

- Identifying and eliminating critical bottlenecks across complex system architectures to enhance system performance and reliability.

- Leading the definition and evolution of high-level architectural designs for new projects and significant enhancements to existing systems, ensuring scalability, robustness, and alignment with long-term technical vision.

- Driving advanced optimization strategies for micro-service ecosystems to reduce compute resource consumption and deliver cost efficiencies.

- Architecting and developing impactful user-facing features that improve the productivity and diagnostic capabilities of Ford engineers.

- Defining and implementing initiatives to improve stack trace generation success rates for software process crash data.

- Designing and implementing post-processing activities such as transcription, DID decoding, or others to enhance data value for Ford engineers.

- Fostering collaboration and architecting integrations between embedded/vehicle-side diagnostics teams and the cloud team.

- Providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers and performing high-quality code reviews.

## Qualifications

**Education:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field of study.

**Experience:**

- Minimum 8+ years of software development experience (in C#, Java, or similar).

- Adept background in relational databases (such as SQL server).

- Proficient understanding of algorithmic complexity and a focus on writing high-performing software/efficient code.

- Experience in software design.

- Excellent debugging skills and the ability to solve problems independently.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with the ELK stack (particularly the “E” and “L” parts).

- Experience with web UI design, HTML, and JavaScript.

- Data analysis experience.

- Experience with Grafana or similar tools.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- C#
- relational databases
- SQL server
- algorithmic complexity
- software design
- debugging

### Nice to have
- ELK stack
- web UI design
- HTML
- JavaScript
- data analysis
- Grafana

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