Ford Motor Company

Full Stack Data Engineer

Ford Motor Company • $85K — $143K *
Dearborn, MI 48126In-Person
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 3+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform data solutions.
  • Proven track record of building scalable data ingestion pipelines.
  • 2+ years of experience in CI/CD and DevOps practices.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable data pipelines for financial data.
  • Develop analytical data products based on solid data architecture principles.
  • Enhance platform infrastructure using Terraform and CI/CD processes.
  • Collaborate with analytics teams to optimize data workflows.
  • Implement enterprise data governance and quality standards.
  • Write clean, maintainable code using Test-Driven Development methodologies.
  • Monitor and support production pipelines according to SLAs.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
  • Flexible family care and parental leave programs.
  • Employee vehicle discounts and management leases.
  • Tuition assistance for professional development.
  • Active employee resource groups for community engagement.
  • Generous paid holidays, including a week off between Christmas and New Year's.
  • Paid time off with options to purchase additional vacation days.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking a talented and driven Full Stack Data Engineer to join our product team. In this role, you will build scalable, high-performance data pipelines and cloud infrastructure that power financial reporting, analytics, and strategic decision-making. You should have a strong technical background and demonstrate experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), data warehousing, batch and streaming pipeline development, infrastructure automation, and modern software engineering practices.

Responsibilities include the end-to-end design, development, deployment, optimization, and production support of finance data products-from ingestion and transformation through governance, quality monitoring, and delivery. Working in an Agile, customer-centric environment and in close partnership with analytics stakeholders, product managers, and cross-functional engineers, you will deliver secure, reliable, cost-effective, and high-performing data solutions at enterprise scale.

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.
  • Design, build, and scale robust batch and streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to process large volumes of finance data


Qualifications

We recognize that no one person will embody every single quality or skill listed below. If you are passionate about data engineering and have a strong foundation in cloud platforms, data architecture, and modern software engineering, we encourage you to apply.

Education
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a technology-related field.

Experience
  • 3+ years of strong hands-on experience building and deploying data solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining batch and streaming data ingestion pipelines at scale.
  • 2+ years of experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment methodologies and enhancing DevOps capabilities.
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Demonstrated problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively.
  • Ability to work independently while contributing effectively as part of a product-oriented engineering team.

Required Technical Experience
  • Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services used for data engineering and analytics.
  • Experience building scalable batch and streaming data pipelines.
  • Proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Strong understanding of data warehousing principles, data modeling, data mapping, and analytical data product design.
  • Experience with data lineage, data quality monitoring, and enterprise data governance standards.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated testing, code reviews, and modern DevOps practices.
  • Experience utilizing Test-Driven Development and writing clean, reliable, maintainable code.
  • Familiarity with code quality and vulnerability scanning tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and/or Cycode.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to partner with business stakeholders and advocate for well-designed technical solutions.
  • Customer-centric mindset with strong troubleshooting, optimization, and production-support capabilities.

Preferred Experience
  • Experience with GCP data services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and related cloud-native data technologies.
  • Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications using Python, SQL, or similar programming languages.
  • Experience processing large datasets using Spark or other distributed data-processing frameworks.
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.
  • Familiarity with Tekton or similar tools for cloud-native automation.
  • Experience developing APIs or service-layer capabilities that enable secure access to data products.
  • Experience in finance, accounting, enterprise financial systems, or financial data domains.
  • Experience supporting production data platforms with defined service-level agreements.


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 grade 6.

This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $85,400-$143,200.

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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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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
* Ladders Estimates

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