Ford Motor Company
Website:
ford.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ford-motor-company
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Job details:
- Lead Engineer for variable marketing incentive systems is a hands-on development role that own the architecture, technical design, realization for a complex micro services ecosystem and build a greenfield open stack platform for a large-scale technical modernization
- Modernize the technology stack for variable marketing incentive systems based on MACH architecture principles.
- Model the use of modern software engineering practices (i.e.,TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Shift left, 12 factor applications etc.), API design, and architecture to support integration with existing Ford software products as well as external cloud-based services.
- Collaborate with Ford’s Enterprise Architecture organization to rationalize technologies, further leverage current technology offerings already in use, and identify gaps/opportunities.
- Overall responsibility and accountability for API design and backend Spring boot microservices suite on Google cloud platform
- Responsible for overall design and evolution of one or mode modules (Microservices) in one of the variable marketing incentive products. Ideal candidates will research the existing application footprint and recommend solutions to run application workloads in futuristic Architecture landscape
- Modernize the variable marketing incentive products and experience to significantly improve Ford’s current capabilities and ensure these platforms can grow to meet increasing demands
- Design, build POCs on latest cutting-edge technologies as well as contribute to constructing, deploying highly scalable and robust cloud based intelligent solutions.
- Contribute to Ford’s Product Driven Organization (PDO) model by identifying improvements and areas that help to reduce dependencies and increase autonomy for teams to delivery.
Leadership Skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members
- Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation
- Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization – inside and outside of the technology and software organization
Functional Skills
- Strong hands-on experience of at least 10 + years in Java/J2EE/Spring framework/Spring boot
- Experience with the following: Microservices architectures (using Spring boot/Micronaut/Ratpack/Quarkus), Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and/or performance testing.
- Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on
- Conversant in multiple programming languages. Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts including scalability, performance, and consistency characteristics of a microservices driven eCommerce architecture
- Good expertise in REST, Messaging (KAFKA, RABBITMQ, cloud pub/sub etc.), stream processing (SPARK, STORM etc.), NoSQL as well as database Systems (RDBMS, NO SQL Stores like Cassandra, HBase, Mongo, Memcached etc.)
- Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability and Containerization technologies
- Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE, and DevOps.
- Experience in building Structured, Semi-Structured and Unstructured data stores with a good understanding of RDBMS, No-SQL databases and strong exposure to data modelling, data access patterns, data replication, active-active polyglot persistence setup.
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