Principal Architect - Data-Driven SaaS Leader

Ford Motor Company; Helena (MT); On-site; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Employee resource groups

Parental leave & family care days

Competitive salary with bonus programs

Job summary

Ford Motor Company, through Ford Pro Intelligence Telematics, seeks a Principal Engineer to lead architectural vision and build data-intensive SaaS platforms, APIs, and frontends for fleet management. The role spans back-end services, data pipelines, and customer-facing dashboards in a high-scale cloud environment.

You will mentor engineers, shape product and technical requirements with Product and Design, and drive multi-team roadmaps to deliver scalable, reliable systems across Ford

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering with leadership and architecture responsibility.
• 5+ years designing scalable data-intensive web apps and SaaS products.
• 5+ years API development in Java/Kotlin and frontend frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive the technical roadmap for large-scale SaaS apps.
• Mentor engineers and set standards for quality and delivery.
• Lead design of core SaaS platforms, API services, and frontend components.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Business leadership to shape requirements.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architectural design

API development

Java/Kotlin

React frontend

PostgreSQL

Redis

GCP

Mentorship

Cloud/SaaS architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kotlin

Spring Boot

React

PostgreSQL

Redis

GCP (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, BigTable)

Job description

Ford Motor Company, through Ford Pro Intelligence Telematics, seeks a Principal Engineer to lead architectural vision and build data-intensive SaaS platforms, APIs, and frontends for fleet management. The role spans back-end services, data pipelines, and customer-facing dashboards in a high-scale cloud environment.

You will mentor engineers, shape product and technical requirements with Product and Design, and drive multi-team roadmaps to deliver scalable, reliable systems across Ford