Senior Director, Data and Analytics Platform

About Ford

Come help build a better world, where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. Ford Motor Company was built on the belief that freedom of movement drives human progress. It's a belief that has fueled our passion to create great cars and trucks. And today, it drives our commitment to become the world's most trusted mobility company, designing vehicles for a smart world that helps people move more safely, confidently, and freely. Ford is experiencing significant business transformation in an ever-changing digital world. We are dedicated to delivering distinctive products and solutions, having an "always on" relationship with customers and continuously improving our user experience.

The Opportunity

Ford is engaged in a multi-year global transformation of our Computer and Data assets. The fundamental element of the transformation is cloud transformation and migration to the Google Cloud Platform. The Database assets are currently distributed between On-prem and Cloud (primarily GCP). The data granularity varies from near real time (plant floor systems) to analytics and mainframes. The transformation is based on empowering Product Teams to use a standard and easy-to-use database and analytics layers. This simplification will provide customers with the "must-have" DB services/platforms they need with greater autonomy, while keeping their data protected to deliver positive business outcomes. Additionally, the transformation will accelerate new development and reduce legacy DB support by embracing managed support options such as DBaaS. This is aligned with GCP's first strategy and leverages GCP's transformational database technologies for next-gen cloud-native applications requiring the highest levels of scalability and availability. Finally, the transformation will favor open-source to reduce commercial software dependency and shrink the legacy Oracle, SQL Server, & DB2 footprint. Our Database Strategy North Star is "Fit for Purpose", GCP First, DBaaS and Open-Source.

Scope: On-Prem, GCP, Azure, 21Vianet, AWS

The Team

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

What you'll be able to do

• 7/24 Always On Operational leadership/responsibilities for all Database and Analytical platforms globally and both on-perm, distributed, and cloud.

• Develop and implement strategies to improve efficiency and productivity of Database and Analytics Platforms/Services.

• Drive the long-term database & analytics strategy with focus on GCP First (Cloud First, with 21V for China), DBaaS (Database as a Platform), Cloud analytics, 'Fit for Purpose', Open-Source and develop, communicate a concise roadmap for database and analytics initiatives for the enterprise landscape.

• Develop and implement a global data governance strategy covering data and database assets on-prem, cloud (DBaaS & IaaS) and SaaS. Research and recommend appropriate tooling where appropriate.

• Establish oversight, improve the visibility, and provide fleet level management of Public Cloud Hosted databases, including enforcing database health checks, industry best practices.

• Manage budgets and resources, ensuring that all expenditures are justified and aligned with the strategic goals of the company and database services. Optimize costs and drive optimal usage of resources.

• Manage license compliance of database assets. Ensure compliance with all relevant corporate guidelines, regulations, and policies.

• Drive adoption of industry trends and best practices. Foster and develop innovation and technical growth. Provide leadership, guidance to global team of DBAs and data science SMEs, setting clear goals and expectations and enabling a collaborative and high-performing team culture.

• Act as custodian of database lifecycle management, security compliance, data protection, vulnerability assessment including Google Cloud Platform Services Databases and relevant regulations and industry standards, such as GDPR and CCPA.

• Manage business partners and all relevant contractual obligations. Communicate Ford's database strategy, data governance and assist business partners in aligning their offering and services to support Ford's initiatives.

This role will be based in Dearborn, MI. Relocation services are available.

Functional & Technical Knowledge

The minimum requirements we seek

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

• 10+ years of progressive responsibilities of software engineering across a wide breadth of infrastructure and technology competencies, including Application Development, APIs, Databases, and Cloud

• Experience with relational and extended relational offerings (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 LUW, DB2 Mainframe) including engineering, operational support, upgrade strategies, cost, and license optimization

• Experience with management of large fleets of both on prem and as well as Cloud hosted databases

• Experience with Fit for Purpose database offerings (No SQL Document processing, No SQL Caching, No SQL Wide Column, No SQL Graph, No SQL Time-Series)

• Experience with Open-Source database offerings (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4J)

• Experience with driving large scale global migrations of on prem database assets to Cloud

• Experience with cloud hosted databases (DBaaS & IaaS) on GCP, Azure, 21Vianet & AWS

• Experience with managing large global organizations and diverse DBA teams

• Experience with analytical database offerings (Teradata, Hadoop and BigQuery)

• Experience with mainframe database offerings

• Experience in formulating and implementing database strategy in support of Cloud transformation and Agile Development (DevSecOps)

• Have a bias for value, speed, and quality to implement strategic goals in the direction of DBaaS, GCP First, Fit for Purpose and Open-Source

Our preferred requirements

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

• Experience with GCP database offerings (CloudSQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Firestore, Memorystore, Bigtable, BigQuery)

• Experience with database offerings available on GCP marketplace (MongoDB & Neo4j)

• Experience with database offerings available on other Clouds (CosmosDB, AlloyDBOmni)

• Experience with fleet level management of cloud hosted databases and DBaaS

• Experience with implementing and managing licensing and cost optimization strategies for large, global on-prem and cloud database fleets.

• Drive corporate database strategy to facilitate introduction of new database offerings, develop appropriate communications strategy.

• Experience with different phases of database management (self-managed databases, managed databases, managed databases with cloud optimized architecture and managed databases with AI assistance). Drive scalability, productivity, and resource optimization.

• Establish oversight into Data Protection (HA DR), Security Compliance and Separation of Duties, Database Lifecycle Management, Database Vulnerability Assessment.

• Experience with Vector Databases and strategies for integration of Data and AI/ML.

• Experience with Analytics Data Management (Enterprise Resource Planning, ETL, Big Data Management, Cloud Data Middleware)

• Experience with Analytics/Database query optimization, cloud compute/storage management and resource/cost optimization.

• Experience with Cloud Predictive & Descriptive Analytics in support of an enterprise's reporting, visualization, and data blending needs.

• Exposure to the emerging technological developments associated to on-demand insight generation via AI-powered and AI-assisted Business Analytics.

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What We Can Offer

As part of the Ford family, you'll enjoy excellent compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation, and much more. You'll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Requisition ID : 29232