[Hiring] Director, Cloud Platform Engineering @Ford Motor Company

Role Description

Ford is seeking a visionary Director, Cloud Platform Engineering – Data, Analytics & Agentic Data Cloud to own strategy, architecture, and engineering of Ford's cloud database and analytics platforms — built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Cloud SQL, Spanner, AlloyDB, BigTable, Firestore, and BigQuery. This leader will bring a product-minded, automation-first, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform engineering discipline to every layer of Ford's data estate.

• Own Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) and fit-for-purpose database architecture patterns for Product Development Organizations (PDO).
• Drive consolidation and cost optimization of SaaS database products.
• Define Ford's Agentic Data Cloud patterns for consumption by application teams.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services, including significant leadership experience.
• Proven platform engineering ownership of large-scale database and analytics environments on GCP (Cloud SQL, Spanner, AlloyDB, BigTable, Firestore, BigQuery).
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling and practices.
• Direct experience with SaaS database platforms (MongoDB, Neo4J, Elastic, Redis).
• Demonstrated success owning DBaaS and defining fit-for-purpose database architecture patterns.
• Demonstrated experience with agentic AI and data platform concepts.
• Strong background in DevOps/SRE practices, automation, CI/CD, and observability.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Requirements

• Excellent executive communication skills and ability to lead through influence.
• Master's degree preferred.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.