Software Engineering Supervisor

In this position...

- Provide technical leadership to multiple product lines within Ford Pro.
- Help business partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and releases.
- Design and deliver industry-leading products and services to maximize value and productivity for commercial customers.

What you'll do...

• Ensure engineering excellence (e.g. best practices and quality) is achieved within product group.
• Collaborate with other Product Line Anchors to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions.
• Provide thought leadership for the development, structure, technology, and tools used within Ford Pro.
• Innovate and operate with an iterative, agile and user-centric perspective.
• Clearly communicate technology strategy and vision to team members and internal and external stakeholders.

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Experience 10+ years with progressive responsibilities in Software Engineering, Architecture and Agile Framework.
• Must be able to operationalize and assist teams with abstract technology concepts.
• Strong demonstrated competencies on cloud and digital platforms.
• Strong communication, collaborative, and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to work closely with senior leadership.
• Strong personal presence and capabilities to resolve technical concerns.
• Experience with cloud services and platform knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to drive development of highly technical technology services and capabilities.
• Experience with Lean methodology & eXtreme Programming.
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to drive API economy and solutions
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to drive highly available consumer ready Internet properties and technical platforms. · Experience collaborating with engineers, designers, and product owners.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience
• Ability to work collaboratively and navigate complex decision making in a rapidly changing environment
• Strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to teach others.

Even better, you may have...

• Technical expert who has experience building platforms and underlying services for re-use.
• Understands business priorities and technical feasibility in order to prioritize the platform backlog, identify dependencies, and manage risks.
• Ability to jump in and assist product lines and product teams to resolve technical blockers.
• Focus on delivering product value through reusable services and technologies that other product teams can leverage.
• Initiates or translates the product road map into manageable product features in the backlog through quarterly scoping sessions.
• Work hands-on with the product teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver the platform foundations capabilities.
• Attends Ford Pro Technology councils and cascades relevant information to appropriate members of their product line.
• Identifies areas within software delivery process and application ecosystem that require cohesion across the platform and addresses them through common engineer · Assess the technology feasibility of the product group roadmaps.
• Employs and/or champions Agile software processes, culture, best practices, and techniques.
• Actively works to identify and remove/ mitigate risks and blockers to product delivery.
• Assesses the overall health of the product and prompts key decisions to move it forward.