Director, Cloud Platform & Data Analytics

Lincoln Motor Company; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave and family care

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering for Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud. Lead strategy, architecture, and IaC-driven platform engineering across GCP databases and analytics.

You will own DBaaS, define patterns for various data workloads, and drive cost optimization while building a global engineering team and foster DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services.
• Proven ownership of large-scale database and analytics on GCP.
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation.

Responsibilities

• Define a multi-year platform engineering roadmap for cloud databases and analytics.
• Lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.
• Build and promote self-service APIs, golden paths, and paved roads for internal data products.
• Own DBaaS strategy and cost-optimization across data platforms.

Skills

Platform engineering

Leadership

GCP expertise

DevOps/SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

IaC tooling

SaaS platforms

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering for Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud. Lead strategy, architecture, and IaC-driven platform engineering across GCP databases and analytics.

You will own DBaaS, define patterns for various data workloads, and drive cost optimization while building a global engineering team and foster DevSecOps practices.