Software Engineer

In this Journey Porting Center is committed to serve the IT Customers by playing significant role in Modernizing IT Applications to GCP Platform across enterprise serving numerous application teams to Port their application into Modern cloud platform

Porting Center is a key technology refresh shop in Ford IT, supporting all PDO teams through many automation enablers in expediting the GCP Modernization

The Technical Anchor will work with multiple PDO team tech SMEs, Vendor Partners and Cloud Platform teams to follow opiniated technology standards of Enterprise and help landing into feature state as per the defined wave by the central program team. The ideal candidate is a strong Java developer who embraces AI as a tool to enhance software development and application capabilities. This role focuses on building production software systems that intelligently leverage AI, rather than developing AI/ML models. Experience with traditional software engineering practices, design patterns, and enterprise architecture is paramount, with AI serving as an accelerator and feature enhancer for business solutions.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITEIS

 

• Agile personality and Software Craftsmanship mindset for leading and influencing an Agile team particularly for Enterprise Technology Refresh projects
• Should possess Capabilities to lead a Technical Team on Application modernization project engagements
• Own and Lead end-to-end development of the application via front end to backend (server, deployment, configuration management, application, database and security)
• Leads a Technical Project, Review & provide recommendation for adopting new features, core development tools consistent with Ford's Enterprise IT direction
• Research new technologies, implements enterprise technology shifts and new trends impacting Ford application delivery
• Provides technical mentoring to fellow Developers
• Conduct proof-of-concepts to support new features, ensure quality, timely delivery using Agile practices
• Deliver valuable, working, tested, quality software released at market speed
• Collaborate directly and continuously with Product Managers and Product Owners to prioritize deliverables geared towards a business and user value driven approach with continuous improvement and innovative mindset
• Interact with the FBS Ford IT teams in development, migration and Support
• Understand and Collaborate with Dev enablement/ITO/Engineering teams for support and adherence to Ford IT's architecture standards and processes within department as appropriate
• Ensures appropriate use of Ford IT processes, tools and methodologies within department
• Responsible for assessing requirements for estimates on need basis
• Advocates corporate standards in solution development and implementation

 

MUST HAVE SKILLS

• 5+ Years of overall IT Industry experience including,
• Strong Object-Oriented Analysis and Design & Good Hands-on experience in development, in core  Java 11/17/21, EE technologies and good understanding of design patterns
• 4+ years of experience in Springboot / Microservices & Angular Development (Angular 17/18)
• Experience in Spring, JSF, RESTFUL/SOAP Web services development in PCF/CaaS Cloud platforms
• Strong UI/UX design & development skills, including Angular, JSON/XML, JUNIT
• Experience in Enterprise SSO technologies like ADFS, SAML and Cloud based Securities
• Good exposure in RDBMS and SQL (MSSQL, Oracle etc.,) & experience in handling ORM frameworks like Hibernate etc.,
• Expertise in Source Control Repositories (GitHub/Others) and Build Tools likeGradle/ Maven
• Experience to agile software development methodologies like Agile SCRUM, TDD
• Experience in Cloud Platforms like GCP/PCF/Openshift CaaS. At least 1 public cloud experience (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Strong Experience in troubleshooting during Migrating application to GCP Platform & resolve complex application challenges/issues
• Technical consulting ability to guide & handle the Application team

 

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• Expertise in implementing Google Cloud Platform and its native Services like GCP Cloudrun, Cloud Storage, Cloud Function, Cloud SQL and Cloud Security
• Handling Dynatrace, Splunk, GCP Cloud Logging & Monitoring services, GCP Load balancer, GCP Cloud Armor, GCP PostgreSQL
• Knowledge and experience designing and implementing SOA and API Governance with tools like WSSR, API Connect, APIGEE
• Experience in handling Dev Sec Ops tools like Jenkins/Tekton, SonarQube, Checkmarx, FOSSA
• Working experience in the legacy tech stack like Servlets/JSP, JSF, Struts, SOAP

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in computer science, Engineering field or Business Administration
• Overall, 5 + years of professional Experience
• Strong Problem-Solving Skills and Critical Thinking Skills, Open to learn new technologies
• Exposure to Software Development methodologies, Quality Assurance and Security & Control procedures
• Should have excellent communication skills, flexibility to accommodate working across different time zones and sensitivity to cultural and geographical differences