Director, Cloud Data Platform & AI Engineering

Lincoln Motor Company

Montpelier (VT)

Remote

USD 142,000 - 268,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on GCP. Lead a global team delivering IaC-driven, self-service data platforms and DBaaS, while optimizing SaaS database consolidation and cost.

You will drive a multi-year roadmap, partner with vendors, and champion a platform-first culture across PDOs to enable scalable, secure analytics capabilities.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required; 15+ years in software engineering and data platform services.
Proven ownership of large-scale database and analytics environments on GCP.
Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, DevOps/SRE practices, and SaaS consolidation.

Responsibilities

Set a multi-year strategic roadmap for cloud databases and analytics.
Promote platform engineering mindset with self-service APIs and gold en paths.
Drive IaC-driven provisioning and automation for database and analytics.
Partner with cloud and SaaS vendors to expand capabilities.
Lead and mentor a global team of engineers, architects, and SREs.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud architecture

GCP expertise

Infrastructure as Code

Leadership

SaaS databases

DevOps / SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

You will drive a multi-year roadmap, partner with vendors, and champion a platform-first culture across PDOs to enable scalable, secure analytics capabilities.

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