Director, Cloud Platform Engineering — Data & Analytics

Lincoln Motor Company; Columbia (SC); Remote; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Flexible family care days

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering — Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud. You will own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford’s cloud databases and analytics platforms on GCP, driving an IaC-first, self-service approach at scale.

You will build and mentor a global team, partner with cloud and SaaS vendors, and lead cost-optimization and consolidation initiatives across SaaS databases to support Product Development Organizations.

Qualifications

• 15 years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services with leadership experience.
• Experience owning DBaaS and platform engineering for large-scale databases on GCP.
• Proven ability to drive IaC-driven automation and cost-optimization at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Set a multi-year platform engineering roadmap for cloud databases and analytics, with self-service APIs and clear SLOs.
• Lead IaC-driven provisioning, security, and observability across database and analytics platforms.
• Own DBaaS strategy and architecture patterns guiding Product Development Organizations to optimal workloads.
• Consolidate SaaS database products and drive cost-optimization across the data platform portfolio.
• Define and evangelize Agentic Data Cloud patterns and governance for AI-enabled data use.

Skills

Platform engineering

Leadership

IaC / automation

GCP experience

SRE / DevOps

Data platforms

Vendor partnerships

Executive communication

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

Cloud SQL

Spanner

AlloyDB

Firestore

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering — Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud. You will own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford’s cloud databases and analytics platforms on GCP, driving an IaC-first, self-service approach at scale.

You will build and mentor a global team, partner with cloud and SaaS vendors, and lead cost-optimization and consolidation initiatives across SaaS databases to support Product Development Organizations.