Director, Cloud Platform Engineering – Data & Analytics

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Paid time off

Holidays including Christmas/New Year

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director, Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on Google Cloud. This leader will drive a product-minded, automation-first approach with IaC across the data estate, own DBaaS, and define patterns for PDO workloads.

You will build and mentor a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs, partner with Google and other vendors, and push for cost optimization and

Responsibilities

• Set a multi-year strategic roadmap for cloud databases and analytics
• Instill a platform engineering mindset with self-service APIs and SLOs
• Drive IaC-driven provisioning and automation across data platform
• Partner with cloud and SaaS vendors to co-build capabilities
• Build and mentor a global team of engineers, architects, and SREs

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud architecture

IaC

GCP

Database administration

DevOps/SRE

AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MongoDB

Neo4j

Elastic

Redis

BigQuery

Cloud SQL

Spanner

AlloyDB

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director, Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on Google Cloud. This leader will drive a product-minded, automation-first approach with IaC across the data estate, own DBaaS, and define patterns for PDO workloads.

You will build and mentor a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs, partner with Google and other vendors, and push for cost optimization and