Software Engineer/ Technical Anchor Lead

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.

Do you believe data tells the real story? We do! Redefining mobility requires quality data, metrics, and analytics, as well as insightful interpreters and analysts. That's where Global Data Insight & Analytics makes an impact. We advise leadership on business conditions, customer needs, and the competitive landscape. With our support, key decision-makers can act in meaningful, positive ways. Join us and use your data expertise and analytical skills to drive evidence-based, timely decision-making.

Global Data Insight & Analytics (GDI&A) aspire to navigate Ford Motor Company through the disruptiveness of the information age, harnessing the power of data and artificial intelligence to realize the enterprise’s known goals, reveal hidden opportunities, and achieve data superiority. 

Our Global Data Insight & Analytics Team is a team of passionate technologists with broad experience in Cloud and distributed systems, Micro-services, APIs, and Machine Learning. We think in terms of scale and architecture. Our Engineers are involved in all aspects of the product life cycle, from conceptual design, development, and deployment, to DevOps. We spend most of our time in writing code and validation. We love agile, extreme programming, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.

GDI&A Tech is looking for a Software Engineer/Technical Anchor for the Product Engineering and Management GDIA team to support Feature Analytics Data Product lines in the software development of high-priority products. You will be both a Software Technical Anchor and have a hands-on engineering keyboard role. Our teams strive for excellence within the PDO structure and agile methodologies

What you’ll do…

• Work hands-on with the team and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality software products that meet our customer’s requirements and needs. 
• Delivered software products as a full-stack software engineer, using object-oriented software design and agile/iterative development using PDO methodologies. 
• Participate and contribute to designs and architecture discussions 
• Work with product owners and product managers to define the features 
• Strictly adopts Technology and Architecture standards leveraging cloud technologies such as GCP, AWS, Bigquery, and NOSQL Leverages logging tools such as Cloud Logging, Splunk, and Dynatrace to support DevOps and debug production issues 
• Follows software craftsmanship standards 
• Pair programs frequently to stay ahead of the code base/tech stack. 
• Coordinate architecture, and interoperability strategy. 
• Foster DevOps CI/CD infrastructure and an Automated Testing mentality and capability. 
• Champion continuous technical improvement for the platform and pursue tech debt opportunities. 
• Help Product Owners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product through careful and deliberate prioritization. 
• Grow technical capabilities/expertise and guide other members of the team

Please note: Relocation is not available for this role.

You'll Have…

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. 
• 5+ years of Object-Oriented Development experience which includes applying expertise in building microservices architectures on JVM platform concepts with the following tools and technologies: Angular, Spring Platform (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Cloud) Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and technologies (Jenkins CI or similar) 
• 1+ years of data pipelines and big data technologies, such as GCP Big Query, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, SQL, and NO-SQL databases
• 2+ years of understanding, practicing, and advocating for clean code principles such as test-driven development (TDD/BDD), Pair Programming, Extreme Programming (XP), self-documenting code, continuous refactoring, and writing Unit, Integration, and Acceptance test cases 
• 2+ years of experience with CA Agile Central (Rally) or Jira or similar Agile Tools
• 2+ years experience utilizing team leadership sk