Software Engineering Manager

Ford Motor Company is committed to providing freedom of movement that drives human progress. They are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to provide engineering leadership to multiple product lines within the Ford Customer Service Division, focusing on delivering high-quality software solutions for customers and dealers.

Responsibilities:

• Provide engineering leadership to multiple product lines within FCSD
• Help business partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and releases
• Design and deliver industry-leading products and services to maximize value and productivity for commercial customers
• Ensures software engineering excellence (e.g. best practices and quality) is achieved within the FCSD Tech product line
• Collaborates with other Product Line Anchors to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and build reusable API services
• Provide thought leadership for the development, structure, technology, and tools used within FCSD
• 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
• Demonstrate software engineering excellence through actively coding, pairing, and performing code and architecture reviews with the software engineers within the FCSD Tech product line

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related
• 5+ years experience with progressive leadership responsibilities in Software Engineering, Architecture and Agile Framework
• Experience with Lean methodology & eXtreme Programming
• Must be able to operationalize and assist teams with abstract technology concepts
• Strong communication, collaborative, and influencing skills
• Proven ability to work closely with senior leadership
• Strong personal presence and capabilities to resolve technical concerns
• Demonstrated ability to drive development of highly technical technology services and capabilities
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to drive API economy and solutions
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to drive 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
• Experience 3+ years with building and supporting cloud native applications leveraging Java, Spring Boot and REACT tech stack
• Experience with cloud services and platform knowledge
• Modern databases (Relational and non-relational)
• Continuous integration/continuous delivery tools and pipelines, such as Tekton, Jenkins, Terraform, SonarQube, Maven, Gradle, Harness, Apigee X etc
• Experience developing and deploying to cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud Platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure
• Experience with GCP Dataflow (Apache Beam) and workflow orchestration
• Technical expert who has experience building platforms and underlying services for re-use
• Understands business priorities and technical feasibility 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 FCSD 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 engineering policies
• Assesses 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