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.
Building the future of transportation requires the sophisticated application of data, metrics, and analytics. As a member of our Global Data Insight & Analytics team, you will play a vital role in this evolution. We serve as trusted advisors, providing Ford with a clear view of market dynamics, consumer preferences, and the competitive environment. Our insights empower leaders to make impactful, strategic choices. Join us to apply your analytical talents and help drive informed, real-time decision-making.
Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs both on-prem and cloud native. They are involved in the entire software development lifecycle including designing software architecture, writing code, testing for quality and deploying the software to meet customer requirements. Full-stack software engineering roles, who can develop all components of software including user interface and server side also fall within this job function.
Responsibilities- Product And Requirements Management: Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases. Participate in stand-up operations meetings.
- Author: Process and Design Documents
- Design/Develop/Test/Deploy: Work with the Business Customer, Product Owner, Architects, Product Designer, Software Engineers, and Security Controls Champion on solution design, development, and deployment.
- Operations: Generate Metrics, Perform User Access Authorization, Perform Password Maintenance, and Build Deployment Pipelines.
- Incident, Problem, And Change/Service Requests: Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change and service request-related activities. Includes root cause analysis (RCA). Includes proactive problem management/defect prevention activities.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years experience in Software Engineering.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
- 2+ year experience with developing for and deploying to cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, PCF, Azure)
- Implement and optimize cloud services and tools (e.g. Terraform, BigQuery, GCP)
- Experience in development using combination of the following technologies:
- Languages: Python/ Java / JS / TS
- Frontend frameworks: Angular/React/Dash
- Backend frameworks: Spring/Node
- Proven experience understanding, practicing, and advocating for software engineering disciplines from Clean Code, Software Artisanship, and Lean including:
- Paired / Mobbing programming
- Test-first/Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Evolutionary design
- Minimum Viable Product
- Willingness to collaborate daily with team members.
- A strong curiosity around how to best use technology to amaze and delight our customers
- Using CI/CD tools and pipelines e.g. Tekton, Cloud Build, etc.
Desired Skills
- Highly effective in working with other technical experts, Product Managers, UI/UX Designers and business stakeholders
- Delivered products that include web front-end development; JavaScript, CSS, frameworks like Angular, etc.
- Comfortable with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and pipelines e.g. Tekton, Cloud Build, etc.
Experience with machine learning, mathematical modeling, and data analysis is a plus
Experience with CA Agile Central (Rally), backlogs, iterations, user stories, or similar Agile Tools
Experience in the development of microservices
Understanding of fundamental data modeling
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
