Staff Data Platform and Products Architect
Core
Design and govern the foundation for Ford's EVDD team to ingest, transform, and securely consume high-quality data for electric vehicle buyers and owners.
Role type
Staff Data Platform and Products Architect
Builds
Next-generation cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and data products for the EVDD team
Domain
Automotive / Cloud Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Cloud architecture (GCP/AWS/Azure), Python, SQL, Java/Go/Bash, Event-driven architectures, Real-time streaming, API development, Containerized microservices, Schema-first governance, GitOps/CI/CD, Data modeling, Infrastructure-as-Code
Preferred skills
Master's degree, Google Cloud certifications, RESTful/gRPC API design, Streaming and analytical data modeling, Stream & batch processing, Workplace orchestration, CI/CD & Containers
Technologies
GCP (BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, BigTable, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI), Apache Beam, Apache Kafka, Protobuf, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Tekton, Docker, Buildah, GKE, Apache Airflow, Python, Jinja
Responsibilities
Design scalable platform solutions on GCP; Lead cloud data integration and streaming; Design and productize APIs; Enforce schema-first governance; Build reusable platform frameworks; Drive platform and data strategy; Automate Infrastructure-as-Code; Model and transform data; Operate containerized services; Provide technical leadership and enablement
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope