Manager - Software Development Engineering

Job Description

• Transform teams from a project mindset towards a product mindset
• Engineering leadership role (LL6) overseeing design and delivery of a complex 'ecommerce Finance journey experience' based micro services ecosystem
• This team is responsible for the systems and technology powering the Finance and other core product related experiences on and the other regional markets, as part of the wholistic Omni-Channel, global, platform Commerce team
• In partnership with the principal architect, who is responsible for overall architecture & design, build and deliver a modern, greenfield open stack platform based on MACH architecture principles
• Model the use of modern software engineering practices (TDD BDD, CI/CD, Shift left, 12 factor applications, 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.
• 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

• Responsible for the evolution and delivery of next generation eCommerce customer experience platforms.
• Bring commerce platform engineering expertise and experience to significantly improve Ford's current capabilities and ensure these platforms can grow to meet increasing demands
• Establish a platform improvement 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.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members
• 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.
• 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.