Director, Cloud Platform Engineering - Data & Analytics

Lincoln Motor Company; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision and药

Flexible family care days

Family building benefits

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off for service

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a Director, Cloud Platform Engineering – Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on Google Cloud.

The leader will establish a product-minded, automation-first approach with IaC, unify DBaaS, and drive cost optimization across SaaS databases while mentoring a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services.

Responsibilities

• Define a multi-year strategic roadmap for cloud databases and analytics.
• Lead a global platform engineering team across engineers, architects, and SREs.
• Drive IaC-driven provisioning, security, and observability across the data estate.
• Partner with cloud/SaaS vendors to expand capabilities and optimize costs.

Skills

Platform leadership

GCP expertise

IaC

DevOps/SRE

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cloud SQL

Spanner

AlloyDB

BigQuery

IaC tooling

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks a Director, Cloud Platform Engineering – Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on Google Cloud.

The leader will establish a product-minded, automation-first approach with IaC, unify DBaaS, and drive cost optimization across SaaS databases while mentoring a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.