Data Engineering Manager- Remote

Ford Motor Company; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team of skilled engineers in developing cutting-edge data services. This role is pivotal in driving initiatives that tackle complex business challenges through innovative data solutions. You will collaborate closely with various stakeholders, ensuring the integration of advanced technologies and maintaining high standards of code quality. Join a forward-thinking company committed to redefining mobility and enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that supports your professional growth and personal well-being.

Benefits

Generous PTO

Retirement Plans

Stock Investment Plans

Incentive Compensation

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience with 5+ years in Big Data.
• 3+ years in a leadership role managing data engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to build next-gen data services using cloud technologies.
• Collaborate with business leaders and teams to solve complex scenarios.

Skills

Leadership

Big Data

Data Pipelines

Programming (GoLang, Java, C++, Python)

ETL Design

Software Configuration Management

Machine Learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure Data Lake

GCP Big Query

Databricks

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL Databases

Job description

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.
Ford Pro is a new global business within Ford committed to commercial customer productivity. Ford Pro delivers a work-ready suite of vehicles, accessories and services for virtually every vocation, backed by technology and engineered for uptime. A true one-stop shop, offering a full portfolio of electrified and internal combustion vehicles designed to integrate seamlessly with the Ford Pro ecosystem, helping customers' businesses thrive today and into the new era of electrification.
We are looking for Data Engineering Managers who are passionate about software and cloud engineering. In this role you will lead a team of mid-level to Senior Data Engineers to build the next-gen data services, based on the latest big data cloud technologies.

What you’ll be able to do:

As a Data Engineering Manager in the Data Platforms and Analytics Team you will be driving the initiatives to solve complex business scenarios from strategy to execution. You will work very closely with the business leaders and collaborate with architects, product managers and feature teams to provide core-platform components that support the creation, pipelining and consumption of data and telemetry.

In this position, you will:

• Work on a small agile team to deliver working, tested software.
• Design and implement new features and enhancements to our platform that require hard real-time constraints and elegant, yet powerful software solutions at scale.
• Provide thought leadership and architectural expertise and manage cross-team integration.
• Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.
• Participate in design discussions about new features and ensure real-time technology integrates seamlessly with other pieces of the platform.
• Work collaboratively and communicate effectively with engineering and product teams.
• Lead greenfield / R&D projects and take joy in experimentation.
• Investigating and integrating new workloads, technologies, etc., and working with stakeholders to apply the required changes.
• Participating in team’s live-site activities.
• Onboard and train new Data engineers.

The minimum requirements we seek:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Analytics, or related field.
• 3+ years’ experience in a leadership role.
• 7+ years of professional/industry experience.
• 5+ years working on Big Data and Data pipelines.
• 3+ years’ experience with a high-performance programming language (GoLang, Java, C++, Python etc.).
• 3+ years’ Experience with big data technologies such as Azure Data Lake, GCP Big Query, Databricks, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, SQL and NO-SQL databases, etc.

Our preferred requirements:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Analytics, or related field.
• Passionate about designing elegant Extraction, transform and Load (ETL) pipelines.
• Expertise and experience in building Large Data Lakes and data warehouses.
• Experience using advanced software configuration management (source control, DevOps, continuous integration/continuous deployment, etcetera).
• Experience with software operations (DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Support and maintenance).
• Experience with enterprise security, governance, compliance, data quality, etc.
• Advanced BI dashboard design & development.
• Experience in enterprise data warehouse system design & implementation.
• Familiar with Machine Learning and AI technologies/tools is a big plus.
• Business domain expertise in areas of sales, marketing, supply chain, finance and/or HR.

What you’ll receive in return:

As part of the Ford family, you’ll enjoy excellent compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation and much more. You’ll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition.
If you have what it takes to help us redefine the future of mobility, we’d love to have you join us.

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.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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.

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