Full Stack Data Engineer

Ford; United States; Remote; USD 128,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, prescription coverage

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a seasoned Full Stack Data Engineer to design and maintain scalable data pipelines for telematics and mobility analytics. The role emphasizes end-to-end data flow, standardization, and robust governance using GCP tools such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Dataform.

You will collaborate with data and application architects to drive reliable, cost-effective data solutions from ingestion to insight across the U.S..

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in a related field with 4 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• 2 years experience with Kafka, OpenShift, and Dataflow for telematics data pipelines.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot for streaming and ingestion of vehicle data.
• Database solutions with Spanner, PostgreSQL, and BigQuery for scalable analytics.
• End-to-end GCP data projects using Apache Beam, Airflow, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Build.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion and curation pipelines.
• Ensure data quality, standardization, and efficient analytics readiness.
• Build data pipelines using Python, SQL, DBT/Dataform, and modern tooling.
• Contribute to end-to-end data platform integration from source to insight.
• Collaborate with architects and cross-functional teams to promote best practices.

Skills

Kafka

OpenShift

Dataflow

Java

Spring Boot

BigQuery

PostgreSQL

Spanner

Airflow

Terraform

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering / related field

Tools

Kafka

OpenShift

Dataflow

BigQuery

PostgreSQL

Spanner

Airflow

Apache Beam

Spring Boot

Terraform

Cloud Build

Job description

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

Responsibilities

What you'll be able to do: Full Stack Data Engineer - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, this is a purely telecommuting/work-from-home position whereby the employee may reside anywhere within the U.S.

Data Pipeline Architect & Builder: Spearhead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable data ingestion and curation pipelines from diverse sources. Ensure data is standardized, high-quality, and optimized for analytical use. Leverage cutting-edge tools and technologies, including Python, SQL, and DBT/Data form, to build robust and efficient data pipelines.

End-to-End Integration Expert: Utilize your full-stack skills to contribute to seamless end-to-end development, ensuring smooth and reliable data flow from source to insight.

GCP Data Solutions Leader: Leverage your deep expertise in GCP services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, etc.) to build and manage data platforms that not only meet but exceed business needs and expectations.

Data Governance & Security Champion: Implement and manage robust data governance policies, access controls, and security best practices, fully utilizing GCP's native security features to protect sensitive data.

Data Workflow Orchestrator: Employ Astronomer and Terraform for efficient data workflow management and cloud infrastructure provisioning, championing best practices in Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC).

Performance Optimization Driver: Continuously monitor and improve the performance, scalability, and efficiency of data pipelines and storage solutions, ensuring optimal resource utilization and cost-effectiveness.

Collaborative Innovator: Collaborate effectively with data architects, application architects, service owners, and cross-functional teams to define and promote best practices, design patterns, and frameworks for cloud data engineering.

Automation & Reliability Advocate: Proactively automate data platform processes to enhance reliability, improve data quality, minimize manual intervention, and drive operational efficiency.

Effective Communicator: Clearly and transparently communicate complex technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering understanding and alignment.

Continuous Learner: Stay ahead of the curve by continuously learning about industry trends and emerging technologies, proactively identifying opportunities to improve our data platform and enhance our capabilities.

Business Impact Translator: Translate complex business requirements into optimized data asset designs and efficient code, ensuring that our data solutions directly contribute to business goals.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharer: Develop comprehensive documentation for data engineering processes, promoting knowledge sharing, facilitating collaboration, and ensuring long term system maintainability.

Qualifications

You’ll have… Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Electronic Engineering or a related field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

• 2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: Engineering real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka, OpenShift, and Dataflow to ingest high-speed telematics bursts from connected vehicle networks, ensuring seamless reliability for time-sensitive alerts and low-latency decision-making.
• Leveraging Java and Spring Boot frameworks to stream, decode and ingest connected vehicle data, enabling ultra-fast throughput processing and near real-time availability.
• Architecting robust database solutions using Spanner, PostgreSQL, and BigQuery to provide scalable, high-availability storage, advanced querying, and analytics capabilities for large-scale datasets.
• Directing end-to-end GCP cloud data projects, leveraging Apache Beam, Spring Boot, Airflow, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Build to orchestrate streamlined pipelines to data ingestion, transformation, and automated deployments.
• Developing scalable, high-volume Connected vehicle data streaming platforms with OpenShift and Spring Boot frameworks, implementing resilient data handling, fault-tolerant mechanisms, and performance optimizations under heavy computational loads.

Salary

We are offering a salary of $128,003.00 - $174,548.04/yr.

Benefits

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

Contract Type

Full time

Location

17000 Rotunda Dr, Dearborn, MI, 48120, US (Remote)