What you'll do
As a Software Engineering Leader, you'll be responsible for leading the Software Engineering function in Ford Pro Tech India, overseeing 150+ Software Engineers. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Providing technical direction for the product group by guiding teams to build and deliver foundational cloud capabilities
- Collaborating with Product Group Managers to include continuous technical improvement in the Product Group roadmap
- Collaborating with other Engineering Managers to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions across the portfolio
- Clearly communicating technology strategy and vision to team members and internal and external stakeholders
- Providing thought leadership for the development, structure, technology, and tools used within Ford Pro
- Ensuring engineering excellence (e.g. best practices and quality) is achieved within product line
- Implementing robust CI/CD processes and development methodologies in Software Engineering within the Product Line
- Collaborating with other Product Line Anchors to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions
What you need
To succeed in this role, you'll need:
- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
- Master's degree desirable
- 10+ years with progressive responsibilities in Software Engineering, Architecture and Agile Framework
- Strong demonstrated competencies on cloud and digital platforms
- Strong communication, collaborative, and influencing skills
- Proven ability to work closely with senior leadership
- Strong personal presence and capabilities to resolve technical concerns
- Experience with cloud services and platform knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to drive development of highly technical technology services and capabilities
- Experience with Lean methodology & eXtreme Programming
- 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
Nice to Have:
- Technical expert who has experience building platforms and underlying services for re-use
- Understands business priorities and technical feasibility in order to prioritize the platform backlog, identify dependencies, and manage risks
- Ability to jump in and assist product lines and product teams to resolve technical blockers
- Focus on delivering product value through reusable services and technologies that other product teams can leverage
- Initiates or translates the product road map into manageable product features in the backlog through quarterly scoping sessions
- Work hands-on with the product teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver the platform foundations capabilities
- Attends Ford Pro Technology councils and cascades relevant information to appropriate members of their product line
- Identifies areas within software delivery process and application ecosystem that require cohesion across the platform and addresses them through common engineer
- Assesses the technology feasibility of the product group roadmaps
- Employs and/or champions software processes, culture, best practices, and techniques
- Actively works to identify and remove/ mitigate risks and blockers to product delivery
- Assesses the overall health of the product and prompts key decisions to move it forward
Why this matters
This role will play a key part in driving the success of Ford Pro Tech India, leading the Software Engineering function and overseeing the development of foundational cloud capabilities. As a Software Engineering Leader, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the company's technology strategy and vision, and to drive the development of highly technical technology services and capabilities. You'll work closely with senior leadership and other Engineering Managers to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on a wide range of technical projects, to drive innovation and to make a real difference to the company's success.
