Ford Motor Company

Foundational Platforms Product Integration Lead

Ford Motor Company$99K — $166K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years in network engineering, cybersecurity, or platform engineering.
  • 3+ years in leadership roles managing technical teams or product portfolios.
  • Strong background in enterprise networking across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid models.
  • Experience integrating network services with security and identity platforms.
  • Familiarity with modern architectures like Zero Trust and micro-segmentation.
  • Proficient in Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Rally.

Responsibilities

  • Own and define the product portfolio strategy and roadmaps for Foundational Platforms.
  • Lead the execution of large-scale initiatives in networking and security.
  • Manage accountability across planning, execution, and value realization.
  • Prioritize investments based on risk and business impact.
  • Drive the design and delivery of enterprise network services like secure access and hybrid networking.
  • Ensure secure-by-design principles are applied to network services provided.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance delivery flow and operational efficiency.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave.
  • Subsidized back-up child care and family building benefits.
  • Employee vehicle discount program and management leases.
  • Tuition assistance for continued education.
  • Paid time off for community service activities.
  • Generous holiday schedule including time off during the week of Christmas.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We're looking for a Product Integration Lead for Foundational Platforms to lead the strategy, delivery, and integration of enterprise network and security platforms within the Enterprise Platform Engineering & Operations (EPEO) organization.

This role combines network services engineering, cybersecurity integration, and product portfolio management-with end-to-end accountability for delivering secure, scalable, and integrated network capabilities across the enterprise. You will drive platform transformation by aligning technical execution with business outcomes, while ensuring network and identity services are embedded into a modern, Zero Trust architecture.

You'll lead cross-functional teams and partner across EPEO, cybersecurity, and platform engineering to deliver high-impact initiatives across networking, security, and infrastructure domains.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do

Strategy, Portfolio Ownership & Delivery
  • Own the Foundational Platforms product portfolio, defining strategy, roadmaps, and OKRs aligned with EPEO and enterprise transformation goals.
  • Lead delivery of large-scale, cross-functional initiatives across networking and security platforms.
  • Manage value streams, ensuring accountability across planning, PI execution, and value realization.
  • Prioritize investments based on risk, business impact, and platform strategy.
  • Drive outcome-based delivery, ensuring measurable improvements in performance, scalability, and security.

Foundational Platform Engineering & Integration
  • Lead design and delivery of enterprise network services including connectivity, segmentation, secure access, and hybrid/cloud networking.
  • Drive integration of networking with security and identity services (e.g., Zero Trust Network Access, IAM integration, secure service-to-service communication).
  • Partner with platform teams to modernize network infrastructure supporting cloud, containerized, and API-driven environments.
  • Ensure network services are secure-by-design, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Product & Platform Execution
  • Own and manage network services product roadmaps, aligning with platform engineering and infrastructure initiatives.
  • Facilitate PI Planning, demand planning, and roadmap execution across multiple teams.
  • Coordinate dependencies across networking, security, and platform domains using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
  • Drive improvements in delivery flow, automation, and operational efficiency.

Portfolio & Program Management
  • Manage a portfolio of network objectives, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities.
  • Oversee multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring timelines, and outcomes are achieved.
  • Track performance using delivery, quality, and risk metrics.
  • Identify and remove cross-team blockers, ensuring seamless execution.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
  • Partner with EPEO leadership, platform teams, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions.
  • Translate technical capabilities into business value and customer outcomes.
  • Collaborate with vendors and external partners to deliver scalable network solutions.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related OR a combination of education and experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in network engineering, cybersecurity, or platform engineering.
  • 3+ years leading technical teams or managing large-scale product portfolios.
  • Strong experience with enterprise networking (on-prem, cloud, hybrid models).
  • Experience integrating network services with security and identity platforms.
  • Deep understanding of modern architectures (Zero Trust, cloud networking, micro-segmentation).
  • Strong Agile delivery experience (Jira, Rally) across complex, multi-team environments.
  • Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or platform transformation initiatives.
  • Strong portfolio/program management experience across multiple initiatives.
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.


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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

This position is a salary grade 8: $99,100 - $166,200

*Note: This is a hybrid role, you are expected to relocate if you are not within commutable distance, and responsible to be on site 4 days a week

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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