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Ford Motor Company Director, eCommerce Product Delivery in Columbus, Ohio
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
In this position...
Join our dynamic team as a Director, eCommerce Product Delivery and become the driving force behind our cutting-edge eCommerce portfolio! In this exciting role, you'll spearhead the delivery, architecture, and engineering of a sophisticated microservices ecosystem, leading the charge in developing a state-of-the-art open stack platform for groundbreaking eCommerce initiatives. If you're ready to make a major impact and innovate at the forefront of technology, we want to hear from you!
Although this is listed as a remote opportunity, there is a very strong preference for candidates living or willing to relocate to Dearborn, MI in a hybrid environment.
Onsite work of up to three days per week may be required for candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub location.
What you'll do...
Role:
As the Director, eCommerce Product Delivery, you will oversee the delivery, architecture, and engineering for a complex micro services ecosystem
Build a modern, greenfield open stack platform based on MACH architecture principles for a large-scale ecommerce initiative with controlled data duplication.
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.
Provide thought leadership for the development, structure, technology of Ford with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams
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
Scope:
Global. Team members will be in India, US and/or Europe
Provide technical leadership to multiple product lines across eCommerce platforms
Help business partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and releases through careful and deliberate prioritization
Portfolio Size:
- The Initial team size is approximately 50 direct/indirect technologists, with 10M budget oversight
You'll have...
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience
15+ years of Software Engineering/Delivery Experience
5+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, managing software development teams
Even better, you may have...
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or related field
Leadership Skills:
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members
Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation
Proven ability to work closely with executive leadership teams
Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization – inside and outside of the technology and software organization
Ability to lead through change
Functional/Technical Skills:
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.
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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.
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This position is a leadership level 5.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Requisition ID : 43973