Technical Product Manager

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The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to five thousand dealers and more than four million customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position...

• As a Technical Product Manager in the platform modernization engineering team, you will define, execute, and operationalize cross-functional software initiatives that deliver business, customer, or technical outcomes.
• You will be partnering with key stakeholders from multiple disciplines to align resources in service of the desired outcomes.
• You will help develop program strategies, functional and technical requirements, resourcing plans, and technical roadmaps.

What you'll do...

• Partner with Product Manager to ensure alignment of the product line vision, strategy and roadmap
• Collaborate with global teams for global feature development and releases
• Facilitate Daily Standups, Iteration Planning Meetings, Retrospectives, and Story Acceptance sessions
• Manage and prioritize a backlog of User Stories for the Product Team
• Identify exciting opportunities for adopting new concepts to solve existing needs and predicting future challenges
• Works with the development team to ensure that product requirements are understood
• Manages technical dependencies and work through technical roadblocks
• Triages an incident and manages involving right technical teams for resolution
• Responsible for Access Management - APS/ FIM groups/Proxy Ids

You'll have...

• 5+ years of full stack software engineering experience (web applications, cloud technologies, microservices architecture etc.)
• Experience developing products using extreme agile/ pair/mobbed programming in a test-driven development (TDD).
• Experience using advanced software configuration management (source control, DevOps, continuous integration/continuous deployment, etc.)
• Experience with software operations (Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Support, and maintenance)
• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices (SAFE, Scrum, Kanban etc.)
• Experience in Rally/JIRA.
• Understand technical trends and impact to strategic roadmap.
• Ability to balance technical feasibility, with Business Viability, and User Desirability when defining Features and User Stories in the Product Backlog
• Demonstrates a strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices for a capability.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficiency in communicating with both business and technical teams.
• Ability to coordinate and establish trust and positive relationships across teams.
• Willing to work on a highly collaborative team fulfilling different roles and fill gaps
• Proactive attitude, self-starter and not afraid to ask questions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good organizational and time-management skills
• Ability to perform tasks under pressure.
• Ability to operate in an ambiguous environment.
• Exposure to applying concepts of Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment
• Demonstrated ability to learn and become productive in new concepts quickly
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field, or a combination of education and equivalent experience

Tools & Technology skillset:

• Postman, Swagger
• CI/CD
• PCF /GCP/ AWS
• Innate knowledge about infrastructure landscape 
• SQL or database queries
• Monitoring tools such as Splunk & Dynatrace
• APIC/APIGEE
• Understanding of security tools & compliance
• Even better, you may have...
• Knowledge of Ford Credit systems and processes
• Prior project management experience

 

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 cultur