Software Engineering Manager

Ford Pro is looking for Software Engineering Manager that embrace Agile-eXtreme Programming principles to deliver innovative software products for Ford Motor Company and our commercial customers. 

What you'll do... 

Technical Leadership:

• Architectural Design & Review: Lead the design and architectural discussions for new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability. 

• Hands-on Development: Spend a significant portion of your time (e.g., 40−50%) actively contributing to the codebase, writing high-quality, production-ready code, conducting proofs-of-concept, and tackling complex technical challenges alongside your team.

• Technical Strategy: Drive the technical roadmap for your team's area, identifying opportunities for technological improvement, adoption of new tools/frameworks, and reduction of technical debt.

• Problem Solving: Act as a technical escalation point for complex issues, providing guidance and expertise to resolve critical bugs and performance bottlenecks.

• Quality Assurance: Champion robust testing methodologies, automation, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices to ensure high-quality software delivery.

• Ensure engineering excellence (e.g. best practices and quality) is achieved within product group. Actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices.

• Collaborate with other Product Line Anchors to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions.

• Provide thought leadership for the development, structure, technology, and tools used within Ford Pro.

• Innovate and operate with an iterative, agile and user-centric perspective.

• Clearly communicate technology strategy and vision to team members and internal and external stakeholders. 

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of experienced software engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence, particularly in the context of AI.

• Guide teams in the effective and responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., AI coding assistants).

Qualifications 

You'll have... 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Experience 10+ years with progressive responsibilities in Software Engineering, Architecture and Agile Framework.
• Must be able to operationalize and assist teams with abstract technology concepts.
• Strong demonstrated competencies on cloud and digital platforms.
• Strong communication, collaborative, and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to work closely with senior leadership.
• Strong personal presence and capabilities to resolve technical concerns.
• Experience with cloud services and platform knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to drive development of highly technical technology services and capabilities.
• Experience with Lean methodology & eXtreme Programming.
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to drive API economy and solutions

for highly available consumer ready Internet properties and technical platforms.

• Experience collaborating with engineers, designers, and product owners.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience
• Ability to work collaboratively and navigate complex decision making in a rapidly changing environment
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others. 

Even better, you may have... 

• Technical expert who has experience building platforms and underlying services for re-use.
• Understands business priorities and technical feasibility in order to prioritize the platform backlog, identify dependencies, and manage risks.
• Ability to jump in and assist product lines and product teams to resolve technical blockers.
• Focus on delivering product value through reusable services and technologies that other product teams can leverage.
• Initiates or translates the product road map into manageable product features in the backlog through quarterly scoping sessions.
• Work hands-on with the product teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver the platform foundations capabilities.
• Attends Ford Pro Technology councils and cascades relevant information to appropriate members of their product line.
• Identifies areas within software delivery process and application ecosystem that require cohesion across the platform and addresses them through common engineer · Assess the technology feasibility of the product group roadmaps.
• Employs and/or champions Agile software processes, culture, best practices, and techniques.
• Actively works to identify and remove/ mitigate risks and blockers to product delivery.
• Assesses the overall health of the product and prompts key decisions to move it forward.