Software Engineering Manager

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Ford Customer Service Division, within Ford, is committed to provide our customers the “Always On” experience and our mission is to get our customers back on the road, in the shortest possible time. FCSD Tech delivers world class software that our

• Dealers use to Diagnose, Repair & Service our vehicles

• Customers use for a seamless Service experience

• Ford enterprise uses to run a highly Profitable, Critical and Complex Parts & Service business

FCSD is a true one-stop shop, offering comprehensive Diagnostics, Repair & Service Capabilities for a full portfolio of Electrified, Hybrid and Internal combustion vehicles globally.

We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to provide engineering leadership to multiple product lines within FCSD.

• 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.

• 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, Sonar Qube, 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…