Global Product Representation Services

Must Have

• 10+ years of software engineering in leadership roles.

• Industry certifications relevant to software engineering or commitment to obtain within 6 months.

• Leadership experience in creating a psychologically safe team environment and blameless retros.

• Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and deliver software

• Expertise leading large scale transformations and systems thinking.

• Expertise in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations.

• Strong hands-on Software engineering/ programming/ solution design experience

• Experience/Awareness of 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.

• Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.

• Conversant in 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

• Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability, and Containerization technologies

• Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.

• Expertise in DevSecOps, with full ownership of development, security, and operational support aspects of a product. Expertise in monitoring activities and tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support.

• Ability to manage complex integrations and dependencies across various products, product lines, and product groups.

• Proven leadership skills in people management, team building, and coaching, with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to identify innovative solutions.

• Undergrad degree Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Good to have:

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Experience in the automotive industry and / or complex product configuration definitions.

Must Have

• 10+ years of software engineering in leadership roles.

• Industry certifications relevant to software engineering or commitment to obtain within 6 months.

• Leadership experience in creating a psychologically safe team environment and blameless retros.

• Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and deliver software

• Expertise leading large scale transformations and systems thinking.

• Expertise in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations.

• Strong hands-on Software engineering/ programming/ solution design experience

• Experience/Awareness of 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.

• Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.

• Conversant in 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

• Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability, and Containerization technologies

• Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.

• Expertise in DevSecOps, with full ownership of development, security, and operational support aspects of a product. Expertise in monitoring activities and tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support.

• Ability to manage complex integrations and dependencies across various products, product lines, and product groups.

• Proven leadership skills in people management, team building, and coaching, with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to identify innovative solutions.

• Undergrad degree Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Good to have:

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Experience in the automotive industry and / or complex product configuration definitions.

• This role is specific to Global Product Representation Services, one of the six product lines within Order Fulfillment.
• Engineering leadership role (LL5) overseeing delivery, architecture, engineering for a complex micro services ecosystem
• Engineering Lead and Product Owner for the Global Product Representation Services (GPRS) product line (GFORCE, GPRICE, GPAS, GPRIME, GPRS Common), with team members located in Chennai, Dearborn and UK.
• 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.
• 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
• Deliver accurate global product definition and associated metadata (descriptions, images, prices, etc.) to product teams in all segments in support of their interactive user experiences and delivery commitments.
• Enable authoring teams to establish available product features and associated metadata based on viable combinations.
• Drive tech stack modernization (e.g. migration to GCP Network Segmentation), security and controls and continuous improvement actions.
  This role collaborates directly and continuously with all product lines, and interfacing groups.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

As GPRS Engineering Manager, you will be engaging with multiple teams and driving the GPRS strategic roadmap and engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the architecture landscape, evolution, and delivery of product suite.
• Bring engineering expertise and experience to ensure the product line can grow to meet increasing demands
• Establish a roadmap that describes key areas of priority based on assessment of current capabilities and identifies key dependencies
• Identify and recommend related enterprise foundational technology capabilities and improvements or business model changes that should be pursued to improve our customer platform capability
• Contribute to Ford's Product Driven Organization (PDO) model by identifying improvements and areas that help to reduce dependencies and increase autonomy for teams to delivery.
• Ensure GPRS services are robust, performant, and highly available.
• Ensure GPRS services and build pipelines are secure and compliant with latest security & controls scans.
• Advances own progression on the learning path.
• Fosters a safe environment for experimentation and continuous learning
• Use metrics as a tool to shape and align work, anticipate demand, open conversations, and learn