Senior Software Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform

Ford

About The Position

Lead the mobile platform engineering teams that build the foundation of our iOS and Android applications, wearables, and connected vehicle experiences. Lead engineering managers who support software engineering teams that deliver end-to-end software products from conception to production for millions of drivers around the world. Manage and grow software engineering managers and their engineers by providing regular performance feedback, career coaching, and development opportunities. Lead with customer focus alongside partners in the software development triad, including Digital Product + Digital Design, to deliver high-quality features to our customers. Actively participate in recruiting and hiring your teams and the Mobile App Engineering group. Actively participate in reviewing, evaluating, and providing feedback on product designs and architectures with a software engineering focus. Actively seek to improve the engineering delivery pipeline, reducing cycle time and increasing quality and security posture. Apply advanced concepts, theories, and principles to create multi-disciplinary innovations and solutions for the most complex or risky business situations. Develop and socialize new engineering principles and practices to improve the organization. Provide thought leadership and perspective across multiple organizations to eliminate knowledge silos. Drive continuous improvement and build a learning organization. Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies. Established and active employee resource groups

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field or a combination of education or equivalent work experience
10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in mobile applications
5+ years of experience in a leadership role managing people, leading teams, managing managers, and delivering software products to market
3+ years of experience with software operations (Source Management, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Observability, Support and Maintenance)
Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise, experience presenting to an executive leadership team

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
Previous experience building development tools, libraries, or SDKs where your customers were other engineering teams
Previous experience building enterprise scale mobile applications for a large user base
Experience in managing cross-functional technical design and delivery dependencies across large scale complex programs
Extensive experience creating architectures which support reactive, distributed, secure, performant, service-oriented systems
Previous experience in design, development, and support of global software products
Web, API, or full-stack development

Responsibilities

Lead mobile platform engineering teams
Lead engineering managers
Manage and grow software engineering managers and their engineers
Lead with customer focus alongside partners in the software development triad
Actively participate in recruiting and hiring
Actively participate in reviewing, evaluating, and providing feedback on product designs and architectures
Actively seek to improve the engineering delivery pipeline
Apply advanced concepts, theories, and principles to create multi-disciplinary innovations and solutions
Develop and socialize new engineering principles and practices
Provide thought leadership and perspective across multiple organizations
Drive continuous improvement and build a learning organization
Evaluate and recommend new and emerging products and technologies