Director of Cloud Platform Engineering - Data & AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical, dental, vision and

Flexible family care days and parental

Vehicle discount program for employees

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Paid time off for community service

Paid holidays including Christmas New-

Paid time off and option to purchase

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Director, Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and end-to-end engineering of Ford's cloud data estate on Google Cloud Platform, including DBaaS, analytics, and security.

You will build a product-minded, automation-first platform, lead a global team of engineers and SREs, and partner with PDOs to define fit-for-purpose database patterns while driving cost optimization and scalable, secure data pipelines for product development teams.

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 (MongoDB, Neo4J, Elastic, Redis).
• Demonstrated success owning DBaaS and defining fit-for-purpose database architecture patterns.
• Experience with agentic AI and data platform concepts (MCP servers, Knowledge Catalog, Conversational Analytics).
• DevOps/SRE practices, automation, CI/CD, and observability.
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Ford's visionary platform engineering leader for cloud databases and analytics.
• Instill a platform engineering mindset across the data estate with self-service APIs and SLOs.
• Drive IaC-driven provisioning and management of database and analytics infrastructure.
• Deepen partnerships with cloud and SaaS vendors to co-build capabilities.
• Build, mentor, and lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Data platform services

Leadership

DevOps/SRE practices

CI/CD & observability

Executive communication

Security & Compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Cloud SQL

Spanner

AlloyDB

BigTable

Firestore

BigQuery

GCP

MongoDB

Neo4J

Elastic

Redis

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Director, Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and end-to-end engineering of Ford's cloud data estate on Google Cloud Platform, including DBaaS, analytics, and security.

You will build a product-minded, automation-first platform, lead a global team of engineers and SREs, and partner with PDOs to define fit-for-purpose database patterns while driving cost optimization and scalable, secure data pipelines for product development teams.