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Architecture, system, and subsystem changes are managed within a controlled change management environment such as JIRA, enabling traceability, analytical reporting, and the generation of development health metrics, scorecards, and progress dashboards that reflect ECU development status.

The selected candidate will lead architecture enhancements and execution at both the architecture and ECU levels. Responsibilities include driving and tracking architecture implementation, ECU development progress, interface alignment, and overall delivery timing across hardware, software, and system domains using the JIRA tracking platform. This role requires strong coordination with cross-functional stakeholders including commodity owners, system owners, platform owners, and feature teams to ensure successful architecture implementation and deployment of incremental or new capabilities aligned with the overall E/E architecture strategy. The overall system scope spans in-vehicle subsystems, cloud/backend platforms, and vehicle front-end interfaces.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
• 4+ years of experience in system or ECU development, or lifecycle program management supporting the release of automotive electronic systems to manufacturing.
• 5+ experience with high-performing teams and fostering a positive, collaborative work environment.
• 3+ demonstrated proactive capability and strong teamwork orientation.
• 1+ proficiency with JIRA for development tracking, reporting, and analytics.

• 2+ strong test management and cross-functional coordination skills.

  
  Preferred and Other qualifications

• Software development experience preferred.

• Experience with requirements and configuration management platforms such as Jama, Teamcenter VSM, JIRA, and GitHub is preferred.
• Ability to work within a hybrid work environment (combination of on-site and remote work).
• Prefer to have AI development experience. 
• Demonstrate teamwork and work ethics. 
• Demonstrates good leadership behaviors. 
• Strong analytical skillset. 
• Strong interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to meet time sensitive deadlines.
• Ability to make sound decisions and exercise good judgment pertaining to operating 
• procedures and projects. 
• Mindset of Continuous Improvement.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
 

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $84,480-141,360., This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $96,720-162,120.     
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

This position is hybrid (onsite four days per week) for candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location or remote for non-local candidates. #LI-Hybrid #LI-Remote

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• Driver, Facilitate and coordinate the development of an architecture by applying Agile Methodology through and implementation to foster Program Implementation (PI) and iterative (sprint) releases. 
• Lead the Architecture network and ECUs development progress tracking in JIRA controlled tracking System. 
• Develop Artificial Intelligence scripts for certain projects. 
• Manage and roll out new or update requirements, in addition, track SW delivery for new changes. 
• Lead cross functional team meetings to discuss Arch/ECU development topics. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to coordinate the different development phases tasks related to sourcing, requirements, development, validation, and production build. 
• Lead series of meetings to coordinate progress and facilitate incremental or changes.  
• Evaluate and quantify system progress report/data from JIRA system or an alternative system. 
• Assist team with JIRA repository and or training. 
• Support teams meeting to facilitate and import ECUs data in JIRA. 
• Utilize JiRA to generate development analytical reports and progress health chart (scorecards/metric) to be presented to cross-functional team. 
• Coordinate closely with the broader subsystem SW, HW, ME progress to align with vehicle Program incremental (PI) or milestones through product lifecycle.  
• Communicate with system, cloud/backend and front-end teams on system requirements.
• Communicate specification(s) to the designated ECUs teams. 
• Present new changes or data to cross functional team. 
• Generate JIRA data reports and present them to cross-functional teams. 
• Assist team with technical question and dialog with the right team. 
• Facilitate and coordinate Technical Design review and tech Q&A with suppliers and ECU owners.