Software Engineering Manager - Ford Pro Tech

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At Ford Pro, a global business within Ford committed to commercial customer productivity, we are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to be a driving force in defining and advancing our platform and industry technology landscape. This technical leader will be instrumental in shaping the technical direction and talent of the company, driving process improvements, and mentoring team members as technology evolves. The role is focused on leading technical strategy and contributing to the broader technological advancements of Ford Pro, ensuring a substantial impact on both platform development and the advancement of technology across the organization.

What you'll do...

Guide the engineering of state-of-the-art software and platforms using a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach, ensuring high scalability, maintainability, and performance.

Lead the definition of tech stack standards and reference architecture for the Pro Platform, promoting best practices in software design and implementation.

Drive improvements in Developer Experience, API Elegance, and Golden Signals, while enhancing metrics and measurement practices across the platform.

Facilitate the adoption of new technologies, bringing innovative solutions to Ford Pro and elevating our industry positioning.

Evangelize technology and software engineering practices internally, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the Pro Tech team.

Guide and mentor team members through technical challenges within Ford Pro Tech.

Proactively balance scope, outcomes, and technical debt through an evolutionary architecture approach.

Influence and guide the strategic utilization of cloud services, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), to establish Ford Pro as a leader in cloud architecture consumption.

Provide recommendations on team tools and policies, including pairing tools, remote collaboration software, and integrated development environments.

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant

7+ years of experience working with large-scale distributed systems, including Event-Driven Architecture, Containers, Cloud Functions, and REST.

5+ years of experience leading agile development teams using methodologies such as XP, Kanban, and Scrum.

3+ years of experience developing and deploying applications to the cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure).

3+ years of experience implementing software with a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach.

Extensive experience in architecting full-stack solutions, including front-end, back-end, database, and DevOps.

Strong desire to learn, with the ability to rapidly adapt to new technology stacks and product domains.

Proven track record of independently identifying technological gaps and driving initiatives to address them.

Even better, you may have...

3+ years of experience leading large, multi-team solutions across business groups.

3+ years of experience leading teams in Extreme Programming (XP).

Experience leading engineering teams of up to 8 engineers.

Previous experience directly managing IC engineers

Active contributions to or maintenance of open-source projects.

Expertise in defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and utilizing tooling to track them (e.g., Datadog).

Skills in evaluating and enhancing engineering health metrics across teams.

Proficiency in software deployment and cloud orchestration, including Github Actions, Terraform, Docker, Cloud Native Buildpacks, and IAM solutions.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like : will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including :

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

Tuition assistance

Established and active employee resource groups

Paid time off for individual and team community service

A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here :

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SOUTHEAST MI RESIDENTS : Please note, this job is posted as remote unless the selected candidate lives within 50 miles of Dearborn, MI. In this case we request the candidate to be on-site 4 days a week.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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Requisition ID : 50211