**Must Have** • 10+ years of software engineering in leadership roles. • Industry certifications relevant to software engineering or commitment to obtain within 6 months. • Leadership experience in creating a psychologically safe team environment and blameless retros. • Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and deliver software • Expertise leading large scale transformations and systems thinking. • Expertise in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations. • Strong hands-on Software engineering/ programming/ solution design experience • Experience/Awareness of Microservices architecture, 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 and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent. • 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 • 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. • Expertise in DevSecOps, with full ownership of development, security, and operational support aspects of a product. Expertise in monitoring activities and tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support. • Ability to manage complex integrations and dependencies across various products, product lines, and product groups. • Proven leadership skills in people management, team building, and coaching, with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to identify innovative solutions. • Undergrad degree Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Good to have: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Experience in the automotive industry and / or complex product configuration definitions. + This role is specific to Global Product Representation Services, one of the six product lines within Order Fulfillment. + Engineering leadership role (LL5) overseeing delivery, architecture, engineering for a complex micro services ecosystem + Engineering Lead and Product Owner for the Global Product Representation Services (GPRS) product line (GFORCE, GPRICE, GPAS, GPRIME, GPRS Common), with team members located in Chennai, Dearborn and UK. + Model the use of modern software engineering practices (TDD BDD, CI/CD, Shift left, API first design language etc..) 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. + Strategize & work with senior leaders across Ford’s engineering organization to make significant, measurable impact on a global scale by innovating and operating with an iterative, agile, and user-centric perspective + Deliver accurate global product definition and associated metadata (descriptions, images, prices, etc.) to product teams in all segments in support of their interactive user experiences and delivery commitments. + Enable authoring teams to establish available product features and associated metadata based on viable combinations. + Drive tech stack modernization (e.g. migration to GCP Network Segmentation), security and controls and continuous improvement actions. + This role collaborates directly and continuously with all product lines, and interfacing groups. **POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:** As GPRS Engineering Manager, you will be engaging with multiple teams and driving the GPRS strategic roadmap and engineering. **Responsibilities:** + Responsible for the architecture landscape, evolution, and delivery of product suite. + Bring engineering expertise and experience to ensure the product line can grow to meet increasing demands + Establish a roadmap that describes key areas of priority based on assessment of current capabilities and identifies key dependencies + Identify and recommend related enterprise foundational technology capabilities and improvements or business model changes that should be pursued to improve our customer platform capability + 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. + Ensure GPRS services are robust, performant, and highly available. + Ensure GPRS services and build pipelines are secure and compliant with latest security & controls scans. + Advances own progression on the learning path. + Fosters a safe environment for experimentation and continuous learning + Use metrics as a tool to shape and align work, anticipate demand, open conversations, and learn **Must Have** • 10+ years of software engineering in leadership roles. • Industry certifications relevant to software engineering or commitment to obtain within 6 months. • Leadership experience in creating a psychologically safe team environment and blameless retros. • Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and deliver software • Expertise leading large scale transformations and systems thinking. • Expertise in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations. • Strong hands-on Software engineering/ programming/ solution design experience • Experience/Awareness of Microservices architecture, 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 and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent. • 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 • 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. • Expertise in DevSecOps, with full ownership of development, security, and operational support aspects of a product. Expertise in monitoring activities and tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support. • Ability to manage complex integrations and dependencies across various products, product lines, and product groups. • Proven leadership skills in people management, team building, and coaching, with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to identify innovative solutions. • Undergrad degree Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Good to have: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Experience in the automotive industry and / or complex product configuration definitions. **Requisition ID** : 49611