# Software Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Chennai, TN
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

### Job Description

Global Customs IT PDO team partners with internal Mfg. MPL Systems, Finance Systems, and Invoicing systems, and external customs solution/service providers to provide end-to-end customs solutions to manage customs operations globally, enabling Free Trade Agreement (FTA) qualifications and meeting legal and regulatory needs when importing and exporting parts and vehicles.

As a Developer Enablement Leader, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of our Customs IT practices. You'll lead the charge in evaluating, implementing, and driving the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and best practices – from CI/CD pipelines and testing frameworks to monitoring solutions. Your work will directly empower our software engineers to build high-quality software faster and more efficiently.

### Responsibilities

- Fuel Developer Productivity: Your primary mission will be to empower our development teams to be as productive and efficient as possible.

- Orchestrating Innovation: Conduct experimentation and build products that would accelerate developer flow.

- Cloud-Native Empowerment: Playing a vital role in enabling developers to build and deploy applications seamlessly on our chosen cloud platform (GCP, OpenShift, GKE), making the cloud a natural extension of their development workflow.

- Inner Source Evangelist: Collaborating with teams to cultivate a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation by encouraging developers to contribute to internal customs projects and collaborate across team boundaries – NA, EU, and IMG.

- Promote New Products with AI: Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions for code acceleration and tech debt reduction, leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

- DevSecOps Champion: Driving the adoption of DevSecOps principles and practices, embedding security into every stage of the development lifecycle.

- Lead and Inspire: You'll be a technical leader, mentor, and advocate for our development teams.

- Collaborate and Communicate: You'll be a critical bridge between development teams and other stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned and working towards a common vision.

### Qualifications

- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.

- 6+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on Java, Angular, and Spring Boot.

- A deep understanding of object-oriented design principles and patterns.

- A proven track record of driving adoption of developer tools and best practices.

- Hands-on experience with modern development tools (VS Code, IntelliJ with CoPilot assistance etc) and technologies (e.g., Git, Gradle, Tekton, Terraform, OpenShift / Kubernetes, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Cycode/ SAST & FOSSA etc).

- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP).

- Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

- The ability to work independently and as part of a team.

### Additional Skills:

- Experience with developer enablement initiatives.

- Experience with DevSecOps practices.

- Experience with API design and development.

- Experience with microservices architecture.

- Experience mentoring and coaching junior developers.

- Knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

### Key Skills:

- Java, Angular, Spring Boot is mandatory; good to have experience in GCP implementations.

- Developer Enablement

- CI/CD

- Cloud Technologies – GCP preferably

- Agile Development

- Communication

- Problem-Solving

- Technical Leadership

- Software Architecture Patterns

- Test-Driven Development (TDD)

- Databases (e.g., PostgreSQL – Preferred; SQL Server, Oracle – Nice to have)

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Angular
- Spring Boot
- Cloud Platforms
- Agile Development
- Communication
- Problem-Solving
- Technical Leadership

### Nice to have
- GCP
- DevSecOps
- API design and development
- Microservices architecture
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Agentic AI
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

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