Software Engineering Manager

Job Category Enterprise Technology Degree Level Bachelor s Degree or equivalent Engineering leadership role LL6 overseeing design and delivery of a complex Dealer Management Systems integrations with micro service ecosystem The GXP team is responsible for the systems and technology powering the Mobile Service scheduling Dealer Experience and customer service scheduling experiences for in-person Pickup Delivery and Mobile Service on FordPass Tier3Web sites owner ford com for retail customers enable Ford Pro business and the other regional markets as part of the wholistic Omni-Channel global platform Commerce team Model the use of modern software engineering practices TDD BDD CI CD Shift left API first design language etc to support integration with existing Ford software products as well as external cloud-based services Collaborate with Ford s Enterprise Architecture organization to rationalize technologies further leverage current technology offerings already in use and identify gaps opportunities Implement a talent system to review existing team capabilities internal and external and build and promote practices to develop a world-class software engineering team Provide thought leadership for the development structure technology of Ford with skills in strategic planning goal setting processes development and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams Strategize work with senior leaders across Ford s engineering organization to make significant measurable impact on a global scale by innovating and operating with an iterative agile and user-centric perspective Responsibilities Global Team members will be in India US and or Mexico Provide engineering leadership for 2 product teams Help business partners understand iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product MVP and releases through careful and deliberate prioritization Initial team size will include around 10 positions of associates and purchased service capacity with external partners Qualifications Leadership Skills 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 Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization - inside and outside of the technology and software organization Ability to lead through change Functional Technical Skills 12 years of Strong hands-on experience in software engineering programming and solution design Experience or awareness of microservices architecture cloud-native architectures event-driven architectures APIs domain-driven design and public cloud Google Cloud Familiarity with serverless technologies Kubernetes Docker and DevOps practices for building scalable reliable and available solutions as well as performance testing A strong technical background with the ability to be hands-on earn respect and mentor top individual technical talent Proficiency in multiple programming languages with thorough knowledge of multi-threading concurrency and parallel processing concepts including scalability performance and consistency in a microservices-driven eCommerce architecture Experience with cloud-native systems transactional systems multi-tenancy high availability five-nines and containerization technologies Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud security SRE and DevOps Experience or awareness in building structured semi-structured and unstructured data stores with a solid understanding of RDBMS and No-SQL databases and strong exposure to data modeling and data access patterns A passion for AI models Awareness of the DMS partners integration landscape