MDM Technical Lead

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

4d • $97,140 - $190,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters. The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world. In this position... FMCC is seeking an MDM technical lead to join the Customer & Account Domain Identity Platform software engineering team. In this role you will be a technical leader for our Informatica IDMC platform and Informatica MDM SaaS product, while also serving as a senior software engineer contributing to our initiatives using modern Java technologies. This is a senior-level individual contributor position perfect for an experienced Informatica platform technical thinker who thrives on deeply technical engineering work, software and system design, and mentoring others. With your learner's mindset, you will grow and develop as an engineer, as a team member, as a human, and as a champion for Ford.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar technical discipline or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• At least eight years experience in software engineering, with most of this time spent in Java or similar compiled, object-oriented language.
• Expertise with Spring is a must-have for this role.
• At least five years hands-on experience with Informatica platform development and administration, including deep expertise in IDMC components including CAI, CDI, Cloud Data Quality, Cloud Data Governance, as well as the underlying X360 products and integration services.
• At least three years experience implementing Informatica MDM solutions, specifically MDM SaaS, including proven experience with MDM data modeling of entity hierarchies, relationship modeling, data quality and match/merge rules configurations.
• At least three years serving in a technical lead or senior engineer capacity
• Demonstrable experience with Hexagonal Architecture (ports and adapters) and CQRS patterns.
• Demonstrable experience in designing software solutions, including experience with Mermaid and C4 modeling.
• Experience with behavior-driven development, including test automation using BDD Features and Scenarios.
• Working experience with GCP, CloudBuild, Tekton, Hoppscotch, and GraphQL.
• Experience managing work with Jira
• Strong and clear oral and written communications skills.

Nice To Haves

• GCP Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Data Engineer, or similar
• Informatica Customer 360 SaaS Developer, MDM Developer, or similar professional-level certifications
• Apollo GraphQL professional certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Informatica Platform Leadership & Administration
• Administer, design and develop solutions for our Informatica IDMC platform, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and reliability
• Drive implementation and ongoing evolution of our Informatica MDM SaaS solution, including data modeling as well as ingress, egress and matching strategies
• Design and implement IDMC integration workflows using Cloud Application Integration (CAI), Cloud Data Integration (CDI), and Data Quality / Data Governance components
• Develop technical standards and mentor others on best practices for the platform and data management processes
• Lead platform upgrades and migrations, evaluating new features and capabilities
• Lead, present, and facilitate discussions on IDMC capabilities, limitations, and best practices with both technical and non-technical audiences within Ford.
• Software Engineering & Development
• Design, develop and improve Java applications in a technical stack leveraging BDD, Spring, CQRS, and hexagonal architecture
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices that integrate with internal and external systems and extend domain capabilities
• Lead and guide the disaggregation of requirements into implementable work within an Agile-based work process.
• Contribute to the shared learning of the team and broader organization.

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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees