Director of Cloud Platform Engineering, Data & Analytics

Lincoln Motor Company; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Flexible family care days

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to lead the data, analytics, and agentic data cloud strategy. You will own the strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on GCP, delivering a product-minded, IaC-driven platform with self-service capabilities.

You will build and mentor a global team, define patterns for DBaaS, cost optimization, and governance, and partner with PDO teams to drive standardized, scalable data solutions

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services.
• Experience leading platform engineering for large-scale DBs and analytics on GCP.
• Hands-on with IaC and automation.
• Experience consolidating SaaS databases.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate GCP-native database platforms with IaC.
• Own DBaaS strategy and cost-optimization initiatives.
• Lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.
• Partner with PDO teams to embed architecture patterns.

Skills

Platform leadership

GCP expertise

IaC automation

DevOps/SRE

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

SaaS platforms

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks a Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to lead the data, analytics, and agentic data cloud strategy. You will own the strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on GCP, delivering a product-minded, IaC-driven platform with self-service capabilities.

You will build and mentor a global team, define patterns for DBaaS, cost optimization, and governance, and partner with PDO teams to drive standardized, scalable data solutions