We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world - together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
In this position...
The Engineering Manager for Customer Platforms team manages the design and delivery of a complex ‘cart & checkout’ (CCO) micro services ecosystem. The CCO team is responsible for the systems and technology powering the Cart, Checkout and other core commerce experiences on ford.com and the other regional markets, as part of the wholistic Omni-Channel, global, platform Commerce team .
Although this is a fully remote position, the Engineering Manager will work with Global teams with meetings that may begin at 7 or 8 am EST.
SOUTHEAST MI RESIDENTS: Please note, this job is posted as remote unless the selected candidate lives within 50 miles of Dearborn, MI, then if may require hybrid onsite schedule, up to 60% of the time.
You'll have...
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience
- 15+ years of IT experience.
- 5+ years of experience leading large Software Engineer Development teams (preferably 5-15+ engineers), demonstrating a s trong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent
- 3+ years of Ecommerce experience
- 5+ years of Software engineering/ programming/ solution design experience
- 5+ years of experience with microservices architecture, Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and/or performance testing.
- 5+ years or experience working with multiple programming languages. Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics of a microservices driven eCommerce architecture
Even better, you may have...
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
- Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.
- Experience/awareness in building structured, semi-Structured and unstructured data stores with a good understanding of RDBMS, No-SQL databases and strong exposure to data modelling, data access patterns, data replication, active-active, polyglot persistence setup.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members.
- Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation.
- Proven ability to work closely with executive leadership teams.
- Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization – inside and outside of the technology and software organization
- Ability to lead through change.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:
https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-LL6-sal-plan-2.pdf
This position is a range of salary grade LL6
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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