Director, Remote Cloud Data Platform Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on Google Cloud. You will lead a global, high-performing team and drive an IaC-first culture across provisioning, security, and observability.

You will shape the platform roadmap for DBaaS, ensure cost optimization, and partner with PDOs to standardize architecture patterns for multiple data workloads.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services with leadership experience.
• Proven ownership of large-scale database and analytics environments on GCP.
• Experience with IaC tooling and automation (Terraform, CI/CD).
• Experience consolidating SaaS databases and cost optimization at enterprise scale.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year platform engineering roadmap for cloud databases and analytics.
• Lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.
• Advance IaC-driven provisioning, security, and observability across the data estate.
• Drive SaaS consolidation and cost-optimization initiatives enterprise-wide.
• Partner with PDO application teams to embed architecture patterns and reusable templates.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud architecture

IaC automation

DevOps / SRE

Executive communication

Strategic roadmap

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GCP

Terraform / IaC

BigQuery

Cloud SQL

Spanner

AlloyDB

Kubernetes

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms on Google Cloud. You will lead a global, high-performing team and drive an IaC-first culture across provisioning, security, and observability.

You will shape the platform roadmap for DBaaS, ensure cost optimization, and partner with PDOs to standardize architecture patterns for multiple data workloads.