Director, Cloud Platform Engineering - Data & AI (Remote)

Lincoln Motor Company; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Flexible time off

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director, Cloud Platform Engineering – Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud. You will own strategy, architecture and engineering of Ford's cloud databases and analytics platforms on Google Cloud, with a product-minded, automation-first approach and IaC discipline to drive scalable, secure solutions.

Lead a global team, consolidate SaaS databases, and shape Agentic Data Cloud patterns for enterprise data consumption across PDOs, ensuring cost efficiency

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services.
• Proven platform engineering ownership of large-scale database and analytics environments on GCP.
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling and practices.
• Direct experience with SaaS database platforms and consolidation at enterprise scale.
• Experience with agentic AI and data platform concepts (MCP servers, Knowledge Catalog, Conversational Analytics).
• Strong background in DevOps/SRE, automation, CI/CD and observability.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year strategic roadmap for cloud databases and analytics.
• Drive platform services via IaC with self-service APIs and defined SLOs.
• Lead consolidation of SaaS database products and cost optimization.
• Own DBaaS strategy and fit-for-purpose database patterns for product teams.
• Mentor and lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.

Skills

Platform leadership

GCP/Data platform

IaC / DevOps

SaaS database consolidation

DBaaS ownership

Agentic AI concepts

DevOps/SRE practices

Bachelor’s degree

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

MongoDB

Neo4J

Elastic

Redis

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director, Cloud Platform Engineering – Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud. You will own strategy, architecture and engineering of Ford's cloud databases and analytics platforms on Google Cloud, with a product-minded, automation-first approach and IaC discipline to drive scalable, secure solutions.

Lead a global team, consolidate SaaS databases, and shape Agentic Data Cloud patterns for enterprise data consumption across PDOs, ensuring cost efficiency