Software Engineering Manager – Dealer Platforms

Job Category:
Enterprise Technology

Degree Level: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

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.

As part of the M&S Dealer Platforms team, the Software Platform Engineer Manager is expected to lead software craftsmanship for multiple product teams related to the M&S Dealer Platform product journeys and apply platform engineering principles to significantly enhance Ford’s current dealer capabilities, ensuring that application platforms can grow while meeting increasing demands.

• Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices and full‑stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company.

Establish a platform improvement roadmap that describes key areas of priorities based on the assessments of current capabilities.
Identify critical dependencies and recommend related enterprise foundational technology capabilities and improvements to senior IT and business partner management, focusing on software engineering/programming/solution designs.

* Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community, and, from time to time, being asked to code or evaluate code.
Utilize Microservices, Cloud‑Native, Event‑driven architectures, and languages like React, Java, HTML/CSS, Type Script, SQL, Python, Open Source RDBMS and No

SQL databases, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), and Serverless, Kubernetes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 8 overall years of experience building and maintaining complex enterprise web applications in microservice product architecture.
• At least 5 years of experience in leading software engineering delivery.
• At least 3 years’ experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• At least 3 years of people management and agile delivery experience.
• Possess in‑depth expertise in core technologies, including Java, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, messaging frameworks, container‑based development (Docker), Elasticsearch, relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL preferred), No
  
  SQL solutions (Azure Cosmos DB or Cassandra), and event‑driven architecture solutions like Kafka.
• Experience in successfully migrating legacy applications to modern cloud‑based architectures utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery process and tools, testing frameworks, and practices (preferably Git Hub, Ready API, Terraform, Tekton, etc.).
• Understand the testing pyramid, develop a suite of unit tests and API tests, and adopt a “test‑as‑you‑code” strategy.

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!

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp‑up programs, subsidised back‑up child care and more.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more.
• Vehicle discount programme 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…