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.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.To meet the growing needs of the Customer analytics business, the team is looking for a self-motivated, technically proficient individual to craft and shepherd coherent solutions. This will require collaboration with a range of stakeholders to clarify requirements, establish pragmatic approaches, and support and articulate decisions over time. You will join a cloud architecture team that works closely with engineering teams and other architects across the organization.
Serve as a Cloud Solution Architect to guide the design, development, and support of platforms, APIs, and services.
Use Various Google cloud services such as Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloudrun, CloudSQL, Cloud Spanner, Vertex AI, Apigee to support various products in Sales Services and Data Analytics area.
Help unify existing platforms and develop future-facing designs
Bolster data as a product practices and tooling driven by API and data contracts
Contribute to the cloud architecture team by helping to assess and improve its practices
Continuously learn complex and inter-connected domain areas to make informed decisions and recommendations
Work with product managers to devise solutions and break them down into incremental production-ready user stories
Work with engineering teams to refine and capture system designs
Evangelize and enforce characteristics that enable horizontal scalability and resilience across distributed systems
Assess and document rationale and tradeoffs involved in decisions and re-assess such decisions over time
Create Proofs of Concepts (POCs) to assess solution viability
Build shared understanding through models, documentation, and discussions
Work in an agile software development environment using sprint/user story methodology
Work to establish and verify practices that maximize efficiency and minimize risk
Contribute to systemic improvements across processes and tooling
Introduce tools and libraries that improve developer experience and desired qualities
Research and analyze technologies and their suitability for existing and expected needs
Develop software that is Clean Code compliant and utilize tools such as SonarQube
Create and extend Web services to support architectural initiatives
Utilize Traditional and Generative AI apps to deliver solutions.
Use DevOps tools such as GitHub, SonarCube, CheckMarx, and FOSSA to deploy, improve and manage software
Stay current on the latest technology and contribute to the technical direction of the company while keeping a customer-centric approach
You'll haveRequires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field5+ years of Software engineering experience using Java or Python developing services (APIs, REST, etc.)2+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud service provider (AWS, Azure, etc.) and associated cloud components.Experience designing/architecting and running distributed systems in a production environmentSTRONG communications skills and cognitive agility - ability to engage in deep technical discussions with customers and peers, become a trusted technical advisor, and maintain good documentationEven better, you may haveMaster's degree in computer science, electrical engineering or a closely related field of studyFamiliarity with a breadth of programming languages, platforms, and systemsExperience with asynchronous messaging and eventually consistent system designAn agile, pragmatic, and empirical mindsetCritical thinking, decision-making and leadership aptitudesGood organizational and problem-solving abilitiesMDM, Entity Resolution, Customer Analytics and Marketing Analytics experience is a huge plus.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 culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including: Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases Tuition assistance Established and active employee resource groups Paid time off for individual and team community service A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary (https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2025-benefits-and-comp-gsr-sal-plan-2.pdf)This position is a salary grade 7-8 .This position is a range of salary grades 7-8.Visa Sponsorship is provided for this role Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, If you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.# LI-Remote#LI-GH2Requisition ID : 41127