Senior Platform Engineering Architect

Ford; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Prescription drugs

Family care support

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Employee groups

Community service leave

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford seeks an experienced Platform Engineering Architect to shape architecture and evolution of Internal Developer Platforms and Agentic Developer Platforms, including CI/CD automation and infrastructure provisioning. You will blend hands-on cloud work with architecture leadership, DevSecOps, automation, and technical mentorship across Ford’s enterprise teams.

You will partner with product teams and leaders to translate business needs into scalable platform capabilities and drive observability,

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining self‑service platform products for CI/CD, IaC, cloud services, and observability.
• Experience with cloud-native systems, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and public cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to engage executive leaders and facilitate decisions across teams.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence platform strategy across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentor engineers.
• Design, develop, and maintain self-service platform products for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud services, and observability.
• Partner with cloud, security, SRE, release management, and other technical domain experts to deliver secure and reliable platform capabilities.
• Communicate architecture decisions, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical teams and executive leaders.
• Work with global teams in remote and virtual environments and help lead teams through technical and organizational change.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevSecOps

Mentorship

Technical leadership

Cloud computing

Communication

Global collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Packer

Ansible

NX Cloud

Helm

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Tekton

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Ford seeks an experienced Platform Engineering Architect to shape architecture and evolution of Internal Developer Platforms and Agentic Developer Platforms, including CI/CD automation and infrastructure provisioning. You will blend hands-on cloud work with architecture leadership, DevSecOps, automation, and technical mentorship across Ford’s enterprise teams.

You will partner with product teams and leaders to translate business needs into scalable platform capabilities and drive observability,