GCP Data Engineer

Data Factory Engineering and Operations (DFEO) is GDIA's organization for making data available to the enterprise at scale and delivering on Ford's plan to become a data first company. Leveraging our long-term relationship with Google, Ford's Data Factory can provide near unlimited and unparalleled scale by leveraging the public cloud to capture, ingest, transform, curate, and publish data products for stakeholders. The Data Factory provides centralized access, governance, and discoverability to data consumers looking to build analytical tools, develop new AI/ML models, create data dependent software offerings, and turn data into actionable insights and customer value. Ford's data first plan, including the Data Factory, remains a strategic priority for leadership and the company.

The successful candidate will partner with multiple technical and non-technical teams to develop, document and evangelize Data Governance solutions. This individual must be a quick learner and self-starter, as well as able mentor junior team members.

Technical Leadership, Collaboration, and Agile methodology are must-have for this position. The position offers significant exposure and requires ability to work with stakeholders at various levels of leadership.

Data Factory Engineering and Operations (DFEO) is GDIA's organization for making data available to the enterprise at scale and delivering on Ford's plan to become a data first company. Leveraging our long-term relationship with Google, Ford's Data Factory can provide near unlimited and unparalleled scale by leveraging the public cloud to capture, ingest, transform, curate, and publish data products for stakeholders. The Data Factory provides centralized access, governance, and discoverability to data consumers looking to build analytical tools, develop new AI/ML models, create data dependent software offerings, and turn data into actionable insights and customer value. Ford's data first plan, including the Data Factory, remains a strategic priority for leadership and the company.

• Design and architect end-to-end systems, processes, and applications - use analytical skills to meet reliability, scalability, security requirements.

• Converse with product owners / product managers / business customers about the realm of the possible, help with scoping and defining Minimum Viable Products

• Be forward thinking to identify and build the architecture runway needed to keep our capabilities and infrastructure modern and able to leverage new technologies as they emerge.

• Lead group programming exercises (lunch-and-learn, mob programming, etc.)

• Pair regularly and lead by example, staying current with the technology stack and being integrally involved with the code base.

• Apply a test-first mentality and impress upon the team the importance of a healthy suite of tests (unit, integration, smoke tests, etc.)

• Design and architect end-to-end systems, processes, and applications - use analytical skills to meet reliability, scalability, security requirements.

• Converse with product owners / product managers / business customers about the realm of the possible, help with scoping and defining Minimum Viable Products

• Be forward thinking to identify and build the architecture runway needed to keep our capabilities and infrastructure modern and able to leverage new technologies as they emerge.

• Lead group programming exercises (lunch-and-learn, mob programming, etc.)

• Pair regularly and lead by example, staying current with the technology stack and being integrally involved with the code base.

• Apply a test-first mentality and impress upon the team the importance of a healthy suite of tests (unit, integration, smoke tests, etc.)