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About Ford Enterprise Data Platforms: At Ford, data is at the heart of our transformation towards becoming a technology-driven mobility company. The Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) organization is responsible for building world-class data platforms and services that power AI/ML, analytics, and operational workloads at scale. We enable seamless data ingestion, governance, standardization, and democratization across Ford’s ecosystem, empowering business and engineering teams to unlock value from data.

We are seeking a visionary Director, Enterprise Data Platform to lead the development and execution of Ford’s enterprise data platform strategy. This role is critical in driving engineering excellence, ensuring platform adoption, and delivering scalable, secure, and efficient data solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in data engineering, cloud platforms, and product-centric thinking, coupled with strong leadership and execution capabilities.

Why Join Ford?

• Be at the forefront of Ford’s data and AI transformation, influencing how data drives business decisions.

• Work in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment with cutting-edge technology and industry-leading experts.

• Enjoy a culture that values collaboration, inclusion, and career development.

• Competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Join Us in Shaping the Future of Data at Ford!

• Strategic Leadership: Define and drive the roadmap for Ford’s Enterprise Data Platform, aligning with business and technology goals.

• Platform Development & Adoption: Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable data platforms, ensuring broad enterprise adoption.

• Data Governance & Compliance: Implement best-in-class data governance, security, and privacy frameworks to ensure compliance with industry regulations.

• AI/ML Enablement: Lead efforts to integrate AI-driven capabilities such as SQL-to-code conversion, LLM-powered debugging, and self-service ingestion frameworks.

• Cloud & Multi-Cloud Strategy: Optimize data platform capabilities across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, and on-prem environments, ensuring high availability and cost efficiency.

• Engineering & Operational Excellence: Establish best practices for data engineering, DevSecOps, reliability, and platform observability.

• Talent & Organization Building: Attract, develop, and mentor top talent in data engineering and platform development, fostering a high-performance team culture.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with business units, product teams, and other technology leaders to ensure seamless data accessibility and usability across Ford.

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering, cloud platforms, or enterprise-scale data management, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale data platforms, metadata catalogs, data lakes, data pipelines, and streaming architectures.

• Deep expertise in GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub), AWS, or Azure and modern data stack technologies.

• Experience in implementing data governance, lineage, classification, and security policies at an enterprise level.

• Strong understanding of AI/ML, real-time analytics, and observability platforms.

• Exceptional leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to drive alignment, influence stakeholders, and lead diverse global teams.

• Excellent communication and executive presence, capable of engaging with senior leadership and business partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading data transformations in automotive, manufacturing, or financial services industries.

• Prior hands-on experience in Apache Beam, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, DataHub, Looker, and Kubernetes.

• Background in architecting self-service data platforms and API-first data access frameworks.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

This position is a leadership level 5.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here:

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Visa sponsorship IS available for this position.

This role is ONSITE, you will be required to commute to the office in Dearborn, MI 4x a week.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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**Requisition ID** : 53914