Cloud Platform Engineering Director - Data & AI

Ford; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount

Job summary

Ford is seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to own the strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud databases and analytics on Google Cloud Platform. You will drive a product-minded, IaC-first platform that enables self-service data, governance, and scalable analytics across the enterprise.

You will lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs, advancing DBaaS, SaaS consolidation, and cost optimization while partnering with PDO application

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services.
• Experience owning DBaaS and platform engineering for large-scale databases on GCP.
• Proven ability to lead global platform engineering teams and drive cost optimization.
• Strong background in AI, data governance, and developer enablement.

Responsibilities

• Define a multi-year strategic roadmap for cloud databases and analytics.
• Lead IaC-driven provisioning, security, and observability across platforms.
• Mentor and manage a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.
• Drive SaaS consolidation and cost-optimization initiatives enterprise-wide.
• Partner with PDO teams to embed architecture patterns into designs.

Skills

Platform leadership

GCP data platforms

Infrastructure as Code

SaaS database management

DevOps / SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring tooling

Job description

Ford is seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to own the strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud databases and analytics on Google Cloud Platform. You will drive a product-minded, IaC-first platform that enables self-service data, governance, and scalable analytics across the enterprise.

You will lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs, advancing DBaaS, SaaS consolidation, and cost optimization while partnering with PDO application