Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are the world’s movers and shakers, shaping the future. Every day, we get up, roll up our sleeves, and work together to make the world a better place. We’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves at Ford. What are you going to make today?
We are looking for a dedicated and self-motivated Mobile Engineering Manager to assist in the development of a cutting-edge mobile platform for Ford Credit. We are searching for an inventive and driven leader to assist us build our Mobile capabilities within Ford Credit.
Enterprise technology has a significant impact on the future of mobility. This is the opportunity for you if you want to use modern technology to reshape the transportation landscape, improve the customer experience, and better people’s lives. Join us and put your IT knowledge and analytical talents to work to design automobiles that are as smart as you are.
RESPONSIBILITIES
What you’re going to do….
- Create a unified strategy for integrating all existing Ford Credit applications into a global Mobile Platform.
- Capability to mentor and lead junior engineers working on a variety of technologies and frameworks such as Swift UI, Android Jetpack Compose, and others.
- Capable of developing mobile frameworks and platforms to power future use cases.
- Measure and monitor application performance with existing toolsets (ContentSquare, Dynatrace, Splunk, Adobe, and others) and propose modifications to support our mobile platform more effectively.
- Evangelise the possibilities of Mobile Platform within Ford and try to include future use cases into Mobile Platform.Assist the organisation in understanding mobile capabilities and developing a strategy for others to follow.
- Ability to operate independently and in a cross-functional team to achieve business goals.
- A strong emphasis on innovation combined with a desire to be customer oriented.
- Maintain your knowledge of terminology, principles, and best practices for coding mobile apps.
- Provide assistance throughout the application lifetime (idea, design, testing, release, and support).
- Optimise performance via troubleshooting and debugging.
- Promote engineering excellence, amazing usability, and extraordinary quality.
- Drive architectural decisions for our systems and platform integration.
QUALIFICATIONS
You’ll have…
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science or an equivalent is required.
- 12+ years of experience, including at least three years as a Mobile Architect/Software Development Leader.
- 3+ years of expertise architecting Native iOS and Android applications with a high level of client satisfaction.
- Experience with DevOps technologies and techniques such as Agile/SAFe is required.
- Knowledge of system design, programming, and data structure.
Even better, you might have….
- Strong working knowledge of GraphQL and REST APIs.
- Understanding of OOP design, MVVM, VIPER, and SOLID principles.
- Dealing with ambiguity in order to generate solutions that work for partners from multiple topic areas while meeting demanding deadlines.
- You are enthusiastic about learning and growing others around you.
- Experience with cloud application development solutions like GCP and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Extensive knowledge of Swift UI and Jetpack Compose.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, app delivery from beta to production.
- Excellent analytical skills and a problem-solving mindset.
- Knowledge of integrating third-party libraries and APIs.
- In mobile technology, we are innovating, predicting the future, and striving for constant progress.
You may not tick every box, and your expertise may differ slightly from what we’ve listed, but if you believe you can add value to Ford Motor Company, we invite you to apply!
We provide the benefit of choice as an established worldwide corporation. You can select whether your Ford tale will take you around the world or keep you close to home. Will your career be a deep dive into your passion, or a series of new teams and skills? Will you be a changemaker, a leader, a technical specialist, a culture builder, or all of the above? Whatever you choose, we provide a work life that works for you, including:
- Medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage is available immediately.
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programmes, subsidised back-up daycare, and other benefits are available.
- Employee and family member vehicle discounts, as well as management leases
- Assistance with tuition
- Employee resource groups that are well-established and engaged
- Paid leave for individual and group community service
- A generous paid holiday schedule, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the possibility to buy more vacation time
Click here for a more in-depth look at our benefits:
Summary of 2023 Ford New Hire Benefits
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