Ford Motor Company

Full Stack Data Engineer

Ford Motor Company$99K — $192K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in building and deploying data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Proven experience with batch and streaming data ingestion pipelines
  • Proficiency in managing infrastructure using Terraform (IaC)
  • 2+ years of experience with CI/CD methodologies
  • Deep understanding of data warehousing principles and enterprise data governance
  • Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Agile environments
  • Familiarity with security and code quality tools like SonarQube and Checkmarx

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale data pipelines on GCP for finance data
  • Develop analytical data products applying data warehousing and modeling best practices
  • Maintain infrastructure using Terraform and deploy code via CI/CD pipelines
  • Collaborate with data analytics stakeholders to optimize data workflows
  • Implement enterprise data governance focusing on quality and lineage documentation
  • Write clean code using TDD, addressing security vulnerabilities
  • Optimize data solutions to enhance performance, security, and cost efficiency
  • Monitor production pipelines and provide timely support according to SLAs

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave programs
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and their families
  • Tuition assistance for continued education
  • Active employee resource groups supporting diversity
  • Paid time off for community service initiatives
  • Generous paid holidays, including a break between Christmas and New Year's Day
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Data Engineer, you will design and scale robust batch and streaming data pipelines on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will build exceptional analytical data products rooted in solid data warehousing principles.

Working in an agile, customer-centric environment, you will champion modern software engineering practices. You will manage and scale our platform's infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) and continuously deliver high-quality code through robust CI/CD pipelines. As collaboration is key, you will partner closely with analytics stakeholders to streamline how data is acquired, processed, and presented.

Security and quality are built into everything we do. You will proactively monitor data quality, document data lineage, and address code vulnerabilities using modern DevSecOps tools. Additionally, you will optimize our existing data solutions to ensure they are highly secure, reliable, cost-effective, and performing at their peak, while providing critical production support to keep our pipelines running smoothly.

Responsibilities

  • Pipeline Development & Ingestion: Design, build, and scale robust batch and streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to process large volumes of finance data.
  • Data Warehousing & Architecture: Develop exceptional analytical data products applying solid data warehouse principles, data modeling, and best practices.
  • Infrastructure & DevOps: Maintain and enhance the platform's infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) and continuously develop, evaluate, and deploy code using CI/CD pipelines.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with data analytics stakeholders to streamline and optimize data acquisition, processing, and presentation workflows.
  • Data Governance & Quality: Implement and promote enterprise data governance models focusing on data protection, sharing, reuse, standards, quality monitoring, and data lineage documentation.
  • Code Quality & Security: Write clean, reliable code using Test-Driven Development (TDD) in an agile environment, actively addressing security vulnerabilities and code quality issues using tools like SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and Cycode.
  • Optimization & Cost Management: Continuously optimize existing data solutions (pipelines, infrastructure, and products) to ensure high performance, security, reliability, low vulnerability, and cost efficiency.
  • Production Support: Monitor production pipelines and provide timely production support to resolve issues in accordance with established SLAs.
  • Continuous Improvement: Stay current on modern data engineering practices, contribute to the company's technical direction, and proactively build domain expertise in finance data.


Qualifications

Technical Skills & Experience
  • Cloud Platform Expertise: 3+ years of strong hands-on experience building and deploying data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Data Pipeline Engineering: Proven experience designing and maintaining both batch and streaming data ingestion pipelines at scale.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in managing infrastructure using Terraform.
  • CI/CD & DevOps: 2+ years of solid experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) methodologies and enhancing DevOps capabilities.
  • Data Modeling & Governance: Deep understanding of data warehousing principles, data mapping, data lineage, and enterprise data governance standards.
  • Modern Development Practices: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment utilizing Test-Driven Development (TDD).
  • Security & Quality Tools: Familiarity with code quality and vulnerability scanning tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and/or Cycode.


Soft Skills & Education
  • Education: Requires a bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field
  • Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and advocate for well-designed technical solutions.
  • Problem-Solving & Mindset: A customer-centric approach to engineering with strong analytical, troubleshooting, and optimization 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, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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: Benefit Summary

This position is a salary grade7 or 8.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99,600-$166,600., This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115,000-$192,900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

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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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At Ford Motor Company, you will collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Our professionals are at the forefront of automotive technology, leading projects that redefine transportation and sustainability. With a culture rooted in continuous improvement and respect for all, Ford offers a workplace where leadership, diversity training, and innovation are part of everyday life.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
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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