Data Engineer

Ford Motor Company is shaping the next era of transportation and is seeking a Data Engineer to join their Electric Vehicle organization. The role involves building scalable data pipelines to process large volumes of connected vehicle data and supporting Ford's vehicle prognostic initiatives. Responsibilities: Develop exceptional analytical data products using both streaming and batch ingestion patterns on Google Cloud Platform with solid data warehouse principles; Build data pipelines to monitoring quality of data and performance of analytical models; Maintain the infrastructure of the data platform using terraform and continuously develop, evaluate, and deliver code using CI/CD; Collaborate with data analytics stakeholders to streamline the data acquisition, processing, and presentation process; Implement an enterprise data governance model and actively promote the concept of data - protection, sharing, reuse, quality, and standards; Enhance and maintain the DevOps capabilities of the data platform; Continuously optimize and enhance existing data solutions (pipelines, products, infrastructure) for best performance, high security, low vulnerability, low costs, and high reliability; Work in an agile product team to deliver code frequently using Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD); Promptly address code quality issues using SonarQube, Checkmarx, Fossa, and Cycode throughout the development lifecycle; Perform any necessary data mapping, data lineage activities and document information flows; Monitor the production pipelines and provide production support by addressing production issues as per SLAs; Provide analysis of connected vehicle data to support new product developments and production vehicle improvements; Provide visibility to data quality/vehicle/feature issues and work with the business owners to fix the issues; Demonstrate technical knowledge and communication skills with the ability to advocate for well-designed solutions; Continuously enhance your domain knowledge of connected vehicle data, connected services and algorithms/models developed by data scientists within Ford; Stay current on the latest data engineering practices and contribute to the technical direction of the company while keeping a customer-centric approach Qualifications: Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field, and 4 years of experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience (6+ years with Bachelor's Degree); 4 years of professional experience in: Data engineering, data product development and software product launches; At least three of the following languages: Java, Python, Spark, Scala, SQL; 3 years of cloud data/software engineering experience building scalable, reliable, and cost-effective production batch and streaming data pipelines using: Data warehouses like Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery; Workflow orchestration tools like Airflow; Relational Database Management System like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server; Real-Time data streaming platform like Apache Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub; Microservices architecture to deliver large-scale real-time data processing application; REST APIs for compute, storage, operations, and security; DevOps tools such as Tekton, GitHub Actions, Git, GitHub, Terraform, Docker; Project management tools like Atlassian JIRA Required Skills: Data Engineering, Data Product Development, Software Product Launches, Java, Python, Spark, Scala, SQL, Cloud Data Engineering, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery, Airflow, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Apache Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub, Microservices Architecture, REST APIs, DevOps, Terraform, Docker, Git, GitHub, Tekton, Atlassian JIRA, Project Management