Data Engineer

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

1d • $99,600 - $162,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Engineer role resides within Ford’s Electric Vehicle organization. In this role, you will work on building scalable and robust data pipelines to process large volumes of manufacturing, repair, software update, call center case, and connected vehicle data to support the Ford telemetry and observability initiatives. This role will help set strategy and design data architecture.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field, and 4 years of experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience (6+ years with Bachelor's Degree).
• 4 years of professional experience in: Data engineering, data product development and software product launches
• At least three of the following languages: Java, Python, Spark, Scala, SQL
• 3 years of cloud data/software engineering experience building scalable, reliable, and cost-effective production batch and streaming data pipelines using:
• Data warehouses like Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery.
• Workflow orchestration tools like Airflow.
• Relational Database Management System like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
• Real-Time data streaming platform like Apache Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub
• Microservices architecture to deliver large-scale real-time data processing application.
• REST APIs for compute, storage, operations, and security.
• DevOps tools such as Tekton, GitHub Actions, Git, GitHub, Terraform, Docker.
• Project management tools like Atlassian JIRA.
• Comfort working in ambiguous environments where problems are not always well-defined, and solutions require innovative thinking

Nice To Haves

• Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information System, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 2 years of experience with ML Model Development and/or MLOps.
• Committed code to improve open-source data/software engineering projects
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructure and handling application migrations/upgrades.
• GCP Professional Certifications.
• Demonstrated passion to mine raw data and realize its hidden value.
• Passion to experiment/implement state of the art data engineering methods/techniques.
• Experience working in an implementation team from concept to operations, providing deep technical subject matter expertise for successful deployment.
• Experience implementing methods for automation of all parts of the pipeline to minimize labor in development and production.
• Analytics skills to profile data, troubleshoot data pipeline/product issues.
• Ability to simplify, clearly communicate complex data/software ideas/problems and work with cross-functional teams and all levels of management independently.
• Ability to mentor and advise junior team members

Responsibilities

• Develop exceptional analytical data products using both streaming and batch ingestion patterns on Google Cloud Platform with solid data warehouse principles.
• Build data pipelines to monitoring quality of data and performance of analytical models and agentic solutions.
• Maintain the infrastructure of the data platform using terraform and continuously develop, evaluate, and deliver code using CI/CD.
• Collaborate with data analytics stakeholders to streamline the data acquisition, processing, and presentation process.
• Implement an enterprise data governance model and actively promote the concept of data - protection, sharing, reuse, quality, and standards.
• Enhance and maintain the DevOps capabilities of the data platform.
• Continuously optimize and enhance existing data solutions (pipelines, products, infrastructure) for best performance, high security, low vulnerability, low costs, and high reliability.
• Work in an agile product team to deliver code frequently using Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Promptly address code quality issues using SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and Cycode throughout the development lifecycle.
• Perform any necessary data mapping, data lineage activities and document information flows.
• Monitor the production pipelines and provide production support by addressing production issues as per SLAs.
• Provide analysis of connected vehicle data to support new product developments and production vehicle improvements.
• Provide visibility to data quality/vehicle/feature issues and work with the business owners to fix the issues.
• Demonstrate technical knowledge and communication skills with the ability to advocate for well-designed solutions.
• Continuously enhance your domain knowledge of connected vehicle data, connected services and algorithms/models/solutions developed by data scientists and AI engineers.
• Stay current on the latest data engineering practices and contribute to the technical direction of the company while keeping a customer-centric approach.
• Work cross-functionally and have excellent technical interpretation skills to translate technical work to a variety of stakeholders.
• Mentor more junior members of a data engineering team.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level