Senior Data Scientist — Data Mesh & AI Platform

Ford-Motor-Company; Redford Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 133,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid parental leave

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a senior leader to architect and drive Ford's data mesh and data product ecosystem. You will guide federated governance, data modeling, and platform tooling to enable scalable, AI-ready data platforms across manufacturing and enterprise domains.

The role emphasizes leadership, cloud-native modernization, and collaboration with product, analytics, and IT teams to deliver trusted data products and measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Master's level education or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve Ford's data mesh architecture across domains and define data product contracts.
• Establish federated governance policies and SLAs across decentralized teams.
• Lead modernization of data workflows using cloud-native patterns (GCP, Vertex AI).
• Lead ingestion, transformation, and publication pipelines for data assets.
• Design semantic layers and knowledge graphs for AI agents.

Skills

Data architecture

GCP BigQuery

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

15+ years in data architecture/engineering or advanced database design

Tools

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Dataform

Data Fusion

Astronomer or equivalent tools

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a senior leader to architect and drive Ford's data mesh and data product ecosystem. You will guide federated governance, data modeling, and platform tooling to enable scalable, AI-ready data platforms across manufacturing and enterprise domains.

The role emphasizes leadership, cloud-native modernization, and collaboration with product, analytics, and IT teams to deliver trusted data products and measurable business impact.