Director, Cloud Data Platform & AI (Remote)
Lincoln Motor Company
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Job summary
Ford Motor Company seeks a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on Google Cloud Platform. This role drives Database-as-a-Service patterns, cost optimization, and AI-enabled data capabilities across the enterprise.
You will lead a global team, embody an automation-first culture, and partner with PDOs to embed scalable data patterns.
Qualifications
- 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services with leadership experience.
- Proven ownership of large-scale DB/analytics environments on GCP (Cloud SQL, Spanner, AlloyDB, BigQuery).
- Hands-on with IaC tooling and automation across platforms.
- Experience consolidating SaaS databases (e.g., MongoDB, Neo4J, Redis).
- Strong DevOps/SRE practices, automation, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Set a multi-year strategic roadmap for cloud databases and analytics.
- Treat databases and analytics as internal products with self-service APIs and SLOs.
- Drive IaC-driven provisioning and automation for database infrastructure.
- Partner with cloud and SaaS vendors to evolve platform capabilities.
- Lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.
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Job description
Ford Motor Company seeks a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on Google Cloud Platform. This role drives Database-as-a-Service patterns, cost optimization, and AI-enabled data capabilities across the enterprise.
You will lead a global team, embody an automation-first culture, and partner with PDOs to embed scalable data patterns.
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