Technical Anchor: AI & Data Platform Lead

Lincoln Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave and family benefits

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program for employees

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Technical Anchor for Global Data Insights & Analytics to own the technical direction of data, analytics, and AI products. You will set architecture standards, lead data models and pipelines, and guide production generative AI initiatives across multiple teams.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive secure, scalable solutions, and collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and partners to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software or data engineering, including 2+ years as a tech lead or architect on production systems.
• Strong skills in Python or Java, and in SQL, with experience building production services and REST APIs.
• Experience designing and running data pipelines or analytics products on a relational database or cloud data platform.
• 2+ years of experience building, integrating, or putting into production generative AI or large language model applications.
• Experience deploying services to the cloud and setting up CI/CD, automated testing, and security scanning for a team.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and explaining technical decisions to technical and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the reference architecture, technical roadmap, and engineering standards for SEA data, analytics, and AI products.
• Review and approve the architecture of new products and major changes, including data pipelines, analytics services, ML integrations, APIs, and user-facing applications.
• Lead the design of data models, the semantic and reporting layer, and data pipelines, so analytics products are accurate, consistent, and easy to maintain.
• Lead the delivery of production generative AI solutions, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, and applications connected to approved enterprise data and tools.
• Own model selection, cost and latency budgets for AI services, and build-versus-buy evaluation of AI tools and vendors.
• Set standards for responsible AI: evaluation, output validation, human review where appropriate, prompt-injection defenses, and safe handling of AI-generated code or SQL.
• Ensure products handle sensitive and customer data correctly, with access control, lineage, and privacy compliance.
• Set engineering practices across the teams: architecture and code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, ML model monitoring and retraining, and operational readiness.
• Lead the teams’ productive use of AI coding assistants, including practices, guardrails, and review standards.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and grow technical depth across the teams.
• Work with product managers, designers, data scientists, engineers, and business partners to clarify needs, explain trade-offs, and deliver measurable value.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

Data pipelines

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Security scanning

Mentoring

AI / GenAI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP / BigQuery / Vertex AI

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Technical Anchor for Global Data Insights & Analytics to own the technical direction of data, analytics, and AI products. You will set architecture standards, lead data models and pipelines, and guide production generative AI initiatives across multiple teams.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive secure, scalable solutions, and collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and partners to deliver measurable business value.