Ford Motor Company

Jira Administration Engineer

Ford Motor Company$86K — $144K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering
  • Strong organizational and delegation skills for timely objective completion
  • Proven leadership and teamwork capabilities in multi-functional settings
  • Self-motivated with technical problem-solving abilities
  • 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Office and Ford Systems Tools
  • 3+ years of software programming experience (Python, Java, or C#)
  • 3+ years of experience with Jira, Confluence, and Atlassian products
  • 3+ years of experience with reporting tools like PowerBI or Tableau

Responsibilities

  • Administer Jira and optimize project management processes
  • Modernize Jira forms for better data capture and reporting
  • Develop and implement new Jira processes for various activities
  • Update and enforce quality standards in Jira projects
  • Manage personal Jira backlogs and support user troubleshooting
  • Create and maintain comprehensive dashboards for program reviews
  • Integrate data sources for enhanced reporting and program tracking
  • Develop interactive visualizations in PowerBI to monitor key metrics
  • Embed Jira dashboards into Confluence for unified visibility
  • Participate in changes to Jira structure and governance

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Tuition assistance for continued education
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and families
  • Paid time off for community service activities
  • Extensive paid holiday schedule, including the week between Christmas and New Year's
  • Options for additional vacation time purchase
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Jira Administrator and Data Visualization Specialist, you will be instrumental in optimizing project management workflows within Jira and transforming complex data into actionable insights through robust dashboards. Your expertise will ensure efficient process execution, accurate data tracking, and clear visualization of program status and key metrics.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
  • Jira Administration & Process Optimization:
  • Workflow & Form Modernization: Modernize Jira forms and processes for critical ticket types (e.g., CODEMASK), enhancing data capture, filtering, and reporting capabilities.
  • Process Definition & Implementation: Maintain and modernize current design processes through the development and implementation of new Jira processes and templates for various activities, including DCV testing and work breakdown.
  • Configuration & Standards: Update and enforce "Definition of Done" (DoD) criteria within Jira projects to ensure the quality and completeness of deliverables, providing feedback to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on complex items.
  • User Support & Management: Manage personal Jira backlogs, sprint cadences, and provide troubleshooting support for user access issues.
    Dashboard Creation & Data Visualization:
  • Comprehensive Dashboard Development: Design, build, and curate multiple dashboards for Technical Design Review (TDR) and Business Process Review (BPR), including specialized dashboards for specific programs (e.g., Otosan), and maintain/update them as needed.
  • Data Integration & Reporting: Utilize Power Query to combine disparate data sources, enabling comprehensive tracking and analysis for reporting.

Interactive Data Visualization:
  • Create interactive data visualizations in PowerBI to track program timing, milestones, and key performance indicators.
  • Confluence Integration: Embed Jira dashboard widgets into Confluence pages to provide integrated program status views.

Ongoing Initiatives & Future Focus:
  • Jira Structure & Governance: Actively participate in discussions and the implementation of significant Jira structure changes, including project consolidation, custom field integration, and workflow best practices.
  • Advanced Reporting & Analytics: Investigate further enhancements to BPR and Chief Review dashboards, exploring direct data integration from source systems (e.g., EIS) for roll-up reporting.

Process Refinement:
  • Develop solutions for complex process challenges within Jira, such as managing schematic development churn and updating timing review.


Qualifications

You'll have...
  • Bachelors of Science in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering
  • Outstanding organizational/delegation skills with accurate follow-up to accomplish multiple objectives in timely fashion.
  • Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work well with others as part of a multi-functional team.
  • Self-directed with strong technical capability and problem-solving skills.
  • 3+ years proficiency in Microsoft Office and Ford Systems Tools for issue identification, tracking, and presentations.
  • 3+ years experience with Software Programming skills such as Python, Java, or C#.
  • 3+ years' experience with Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian suite products.
  • 3+ years' experience with reporting tools such as PowerBI or Tableau.


Even better, you may have...
  • Certified Scrum Master certificate.


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 salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.
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.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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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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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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