Deputy Manager jobs at Ford in India, Chennai

The IT Senior Engineering Manager leads products to build experiences for Owners working with interactions and integrations across the enterprise. This is a global responsibility, providing the IT point of view on the proposed business requirements to integrate into the existing product portfolios. You will need to understand architecture, technology, and implementation strategies to optimize the experience and the efficiencies across the enterprise. In addition, you will be hands on in this leadership role, working with the team and Product Owner and stakeholders – this is not just a role of pure delegation. You will analyze impact of change on KPI’s and interactions with the customer to further provide Business Value.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Data Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of our data ingestion platform. This platform is critical to our organization, ingesting a wide variety of data types—structured, unstructured, real-time, and batch—from diverse sources. The ideal candidate is a seasoned product leader with a proven track record of successfully delivering data products that meet and exceed user needs. This role requires a strong understanding of data engineering principles, product management best practices, and a passion for building high-quality, scalable, and reliable data solutions.

Some of the features in production that we deliver include: Zone Lighting, MyKey and hundreds more. Today is the age of electrification and automation of the automotive industry with new features proposed daily and we need people that are creative and motivated to deliver the features of tomorrow to our customers.

• Transform teams from a project mindset towards a product mindset
• Engineering leadership role (LL6) overseeing design and delivery of a complex ‘ecommerce search experience’ micro services ecosystem
• This team is responsible for the systems and technology powering the product discovery and other core product related experiences on ford.com and the other regional markets, as part of the wholistic Omni-Channel, global, platform Commerce team
• Expected to possess experience or at least exposure in GenAI platforms – Multi Modal RAG, Semantic search, Vector DBs, Integrate LLM models to power business use cases and lead all AI related features on ford.com
• In partnership with the principal architect, who is responsible for overall architecture & design, build and deliver a modern, greenfield open stack platform based on MACH architecture principles
• Model the use of modern software engineering practices (TDD BDD, CI/CD, Shift left, 12 factor applications, API first design language etc..) to support integration with existing Ford software products as well as external cloud-based services.
• Collaborate with Ford’s Enterprise Architecture organization to rationalize technologies, further leverage current technology offerings already in use, and identify gaps/opportunities.
• Implement a talent system to review existing team capabilities (internal and external) and build and promote practices to develop a world-class software engineering team.
• Provide thought leadership for the development, structure, technology of Ford with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams
• Strategize & work with senior leaders across Ford’s engineering organization to make significant, measurable impact on a global scale by innovating and operating with an iterative, agile, and user-centric perspective