Lead Software Engineer

Position Responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
Ford Credit operate under a Product Driven Organisation (PDO) model. Due to the nature of PDO, Product Delivery will pivot Backlog prioritisation as required to meet the needs of the current environment; focusing on delivering the greatest value to our business at that point in time.

This role is for the Senior Software Engineer in the FCE Renewals Abstraction layer space.

As a Senior Software Engineer:

• Explore and investigate the latest Technology and tooling recommended to the organisation to form a recommendation and implementation strategy
• Lead pilot teams to implement new technologies/tooling/best-practices, refining the approach and recommending them back to the Engineering Teams
• Design and monitor an overall road-map for recommended improvements/best practises and the associated tracking
• Mentor and coach software engineers in software to support their development
• Support teams of software engineers to design & develop application features using industry best practises and technologies
• Support the teams to resolve production support issues or root-cause issues
• Support the change management process and lead efforts to improve/optimise practices
• Lead CI/CD activities, management of environments and management of tooling used to support development
• Lead the identification, creation, refinement and development of technical work required to improve the reliability and supportability of the applications
• Support the management of the products APIs in REST and GraphQL
• Support the design and develop application features to expected team standards, working closely with team
• Create, review and maintain technical documentation as required
• Lead engagements with Technical SMEs and global architecture teams on application design
• Lead impact analysis of hardware upgrades and software launches
• Participate in pair programming as required
• Support maintenance and developing new IT Controls (GRC/Application Assessments /AFR/ITPM/S-Ox/Audit); Ensure appropriate use of Ford IT processes, tools and methodologies
• Support continuous improvement of departmental processes

Responsibilities
Qualifications and Skills Essential:

• Passion and curiosity about new technologies, improving solutions and solving problems
• Personal drive and motivation to take on challenges and see them through to conclusion regardless of outcome
• 10+ years software engineering experience within both backend and frontend technologies. Mainly in Spring (Boot, Batch, Cloud), Microservices architecture and APIs
• Working knowledge of version control systems (Git/GitHub) and CI/CD tools (Cloud Build), setting up and efficiently managing pipelines
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (GCP)
• Experience of working to customer requirements, coordinating delivery of quality code within an agreed time-box
• Strong prioritisation, co-ordination, organisational and communication skills, with ability to work in a large diverse team
• Demonstrated evidence of architecture practices
• Customer focused and strong team orientation
• Ability to work closely within an Agile and PDO team environment
• Self-starter and fast-learner
• Strong drive for high quality performance and value add results
• Demonstrated commitment to quality and delivery timing
• Ability to handle multiple assignments with minimal direction
• Ability to work in a highly regulated, financial environment
• Willing to be flexible in terms of tasks and timings

• Exposure or experience in the following technologies:

• Java

• IntelliJ IDEA
• Spring Boot
• Spring Batch
• GCP
• Cloud Build and Cloud Run
• Secret Manager, PubSub, Schedulers
• GraphQL
• GitHub
• Database (PostGres)

Qualifications
Desirable:

• Experience piloting new technologies and designing implementation strategies
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise best practices regarding existing or new technology/tooling

• Experience of senior responsibilities including:

• Dev Reviews

• Change management

• Building technical roadmaps

• Exposure or experience in the following Skills and Techniques:

• Agile/PDO Ceremonies

• People & Skills Coaching
• Coordination and logistical planning

• Business focused cascades of technical strategies and/or road-maps

• Experience using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)

• Experience implementing enterprise scale Test-Automation
• Experience implementing enterprise-scale Real-Time performance monitoring
• Appreciation of processes and architectural standards required in large organisations

Additional Information
The Company's policy regarding Access to Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA) states that all Employees have the right to request the ability to work in a flexible way. Should you wish to make such a request alongside your application for this position, you must submit a FWA request form with your application. The recruiting manager will consider any requests in line with the policy requirements.

The Company is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of race, religion or belief, sex, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability.

Note: Banking and Compliance training including fair treatment of customers is mandatory for all FCE employees. Necessary training will be given to any successful candidates that require it.