Technical Integration Lead-Platform Lifecycle Management

Ford Motor Company • United States,

8h • $99,100 - $166,200 • Remote

About The Position

The Technical Integration Lead will lead the assessment, modernization, and migration of business applications and databases from existing data centers and platforms to Google Cloud. This hands-on technical leadership role combines application modernization, database modernization, cloud architecture, and delivery leadership. The role guides cross-functional teams through strategy, design, migration, cutover, and transition to operations, delivering secure, resilient, performant, and cost-effective outcomes aligned with business priorities.

The role offers exposure to technologies and transformation programs ranging from mainframe integration and modernization to cloud-native architectures, APIs, intelligent automation, data platforms, and emerging agentic AI solutions. It involves leading application and database modernization, developing migration approaches, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and partners, managing risks and delivery, and improving repeatable migration practices. The position is salary grade 8, with a listed salary range of $99,100–$166,200. Visa sponsorship is unavailable, and candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of overall IT experience, including substantial experience leading large-scale, cross-functional technology delivery and global delivery teams.
• Demonstrated leadership of application modernization and cloud migration programs, preferably at portfolio scale and on Google Cloud Platform.
• Direct experience with database modernization and migration planning, including relational database platforms and PostgreSQL-based workloads.
• Working understanding of Google Cloud database services, including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, and Spanner, and ability to assess service fit for enterprise workloads.
• Practical understanding of database modernization tools and methods, including assessment, schema/code conversion, replication or CDC, data migration, validation, and cutover tooling.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, application migration patterns, data center operations, security, reliability, and production support.
• Experience with relevant GCP services and implementation patterns.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and coordinate technical teams while managing complex dependencies, stakeholders, suppliers, and delivery commitments.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, problem-solving, planning, and executive-status reporting skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility verification is required at hire.

Nice To Haves

• Google Cloud certifications or equivalent demonstrated hands-on experience.
• Experience with enterprise-scale modernization governance, migration factories, and phased migration waves.
• Experience with cloud financial management, cost modeling, and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end application portfolio modernization and migration to Google Cloud, from discovery and disposition through architecture, implementation, cutover, and operational handoff.
• Select appropriate modernization approaches—including rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, containerization, and replacement—based on business value, technical fit, risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Partner with application owners, product teams, architects, security, operations, and suppliers to define target-state designs, dependencies, migration waves, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
• Lead database discovery, assessment, target-state design, and migration planning for relational and other data platforms moving to Google Cloud.
• Evaluate database modernization options, including managed database services, compatibility, schema and code remediation, data movement, replication, testing, cutover, and rollback strategies.
• Apply knowledge of Google Cloud database services and patterns, including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, and Spanner, to match service capabilities to workload requirements and constraints.
• Address data integrity, availability, performance, security, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and operational support during migration and post-migration stabilization.
• Oversee the use and selection of database modernization and migration tools based on compatibility, scale, downtime objectives, and risk.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams across application engineering, database engineering, cloud platform, infrastructure, security, testing, and operations.
• Provide direction, establish ownership and decision-making, remove blockers, manage dependencies, and foster collaboration across internal teams and third-party partners.
• Mentor team members, build modernization capabilities, promote engineering standards, and encourage accountability, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for product development organizations, skill teams, suppliers, and business stakeholders; communicate progress, decisions, risks, and outcomes clearly.
• Contribute to portfolio-level technology rationalization and modernization perspectives with product teams and supplier partners.
• Ensure designs and migrations meet organizational security, privacy, architecture, operational, and regulatory requirements.
• Identify and mitigate technical, delivery, data, security, and operational risks; lead readiness reviews, cutover governance, and post-migration retrospectives.
• Improve migration playbooks, tooling, governance, and delivery practices; track outcomes and apply lessons across migration waves.
• Support transition to operations through runbooks, monitoring and alerting, service ownership, support readiness, and knowledge transfer.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

What This Job Offers

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