At Ford Motor Credit Company, we are modernizing our enterprise data warehouse in Google Cloud to enhance data, analytics, and AI/ML capabilities, improve customer experience, ensure regulatory compliance, and boost operational efficiencies.
You will guide your team in conducting deep-dive analyses, including those related to Current State Receivables and Originations data within our data warehouse, performing impact analysis related to Ford Credit North America's modernization efforts and providing strategic implementation solutions. This role requires significant experience supporting North American teams. Moreover, you will lead cross-functional efforts, partnering closely with our AI, data science, and product teams to develop innovative data solutions that build the future for Ford Credit. You will coach and mentor your direct reports, fostering professional growth and technical expertise. You will also work directly with the Director of Data Engineering, based in the United States, collaborating on strategic direction and execution.
We require demonstrated leadership in designing, implementing, and operationalizing large-scale data warehouses, data lakes, and analytics platforms on Google Cloud Platform or other cloud environments. We are looking for candidates with a proven ability to lead and guide a team of data engineers, drive technical architecture decisions, and make strategic technology choices within the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem and related third-party technologies. This includes demonstrating an ability to design the right solutions with the appropriate combination of technologies for deployment on Google Cloud Platform.
Must Have Skills
12+ years of technical leadership experience in delivery of Data Warehouse Solutions on-prem or on cloud for large companies, and business adoption of these platforms to build insights \& analytics
8+ years’ experience leading technical teams, delivering complex projects using Agile methodologies, and product support for those solutions.
Solid knowledge of cloud data architecture, data modelling principles, DevOps, Data compliance, global (North America/Europe) data protection laws, security and data governance.
Very strong leadership and communication skills to aid customer and program teams in making data-driven decisions.
Demonstrated experience required in engineering Data warehouse solution in Google or other cloud systems.
Driven and managing complex projects \& aggressive timelines
Google Cloud certified professional Data Engineer
Bachelor’s degree in- Computer science, Computer engineering, Data science or related field
Experience on Google cloud with deep understanding and design and development experience with Google Cloud Platform products on Infrastructure, Data management, Application Development, Smart Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Security and DevOps
Knowledge of most of the following:
Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) \& Big Data Tools: BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Proc, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Dataform, Data Plex, Google Looker Studio, Google Cloud Storage.
Data Quality and Governance leadership experience
Designing, building, and deploying ML pipelines (MLOps) to solve business challenges using Python/BQML/Vertex AI on GCP. Work closely with data scientists to help deploy their models.
Proven track of managing large global budgets, and organization change management.
Ability to negotiate with and influence stakeholders \& drive forward strategic data transformation
Quick learner, self-starter, energetic leaders with drive to deliver results.
Empathy and care for customers and teams, as a leader guide teams on advancement of skills, objective setting and performance assessments.
Good to Have Skills
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Experience in technical program management \& delivering transformational projects
Building high performance teams
Managing/or working with globally distributed teams
Prior experience in leveraging offshore development service providers
Experience in a Fintech/Banking or large manufacturing company
Accountable for supporting the creation of the modern Datawarehouse platform in Google Cloud that enables Analytics, insights \& AI/ML at speed.
Managing stakeholders and projects, collaborating on prioritization strategies, roadmaps, architecture \& features delivery
Leading enablement of new GCP BQ capabilities \& engineering patterns for enterprise-wide adoption.
Drive business adoption of new scalable and reliable data platform for enterprise’s data analytics, Insights \& AI/ML modeling requirements
Collaborate with Architects and cross functional application/product teams and Ford Data Factory team to integrate data solutions required to support multiple parallel projects
Familiarity with hands-on development of reusable solution patterns with advanced GCP tools \& guide teams on how to effectively use these tools
Be the trusted partner of business customers and engineering teams in solving technical and business problems.
Effectively manage team’s priorities, backlogs and help remove roadblocks, to drive key business results
Lead communication of status, issues \& risks to key stakeholders
Stay abreast on technology advancements and ensure team keeps updated on skills
Experience leading large team of data engineers \& developing talent, performance management.
Drive adoption of standardized architecture, design and quality assurance approaches across all workstreams and ensure solutions adhere to established standards.
Leverage cloud AI/ML Platforms to deliver business and technical requirements. Manage data engineers and ML engineers that work with teams of data scientists, data analysts, and architects to successfully deliver ML/AI projects.
Provide technical leadership in design \& delivery of Google cloud data platform, using agile practices and delivering continuous business value.