Data Engineer

Job Description

Do you believe data tell the real story? We do! **

Global Data Insight & Analytics (GDI&A)** aspire to navigate Ford Motor Company through the disruptiveness of the information age, harnessing the power of data and artificial intelligence to realize the enterprise’s known goals, reveal hidden opportunities, and achieve data superiority.

Redefining mobility requires high-quality use of data, metrics, analytics, and insightful interpreters and analysts. That's where you can make an impact as part of our Global Data Insight & Analytics Team . We advise leadership on business conditions, customer needs, and the competitive landscape. With our support, key decision-makers can act in meaningful, positive ways.

Enterprise Fulfillment in GDI&A is seeking a Data Engineer to create, deliver, and support custom data products, as well as enhance/expand capabilities. You will work on analyzing and manipulating large datasets supporting revenue for the business generated from data products. **

Responsibilities**

The focus will be on understanding available data, working with business partners to collect requirements, ensuring compliance with Data Governance and OGC use case approvals, creating data products, production delivery, profiling, monitoring, and ongoing support. You will have the opportunity to expand your business knowledge, cross-functional collaboration, business intelligence acumen, and technical experience. **

What you’ll be able to do** :

• Partner with teams across Ford to use curated data to create data products that deliver value for external customers.
• Perform data discovery within Google Cloud Platform ecosystems.
• Implement ETL processes, such as data transformation using tools including but not limited to HQL, Spark, Scala, Python
• Ensure data quality, maintain profiles of data products, and monitor system performance.
• Comply with use case approvals from data governance, legal, and privacy policies.
• Provide customer support and coordinate issue resolution with data stewards.
• Maintain engagement with analytics teams, business partners, OGC, and Tech

Qualifications

The minimum requirements we seek:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Math, Statistics, Information Science, or related quantitative field
• 5+ years in a traditional data warehouse environment (ETL pipelines), Datastage, Informatica, etc.
• 2+ years utilizing data tools such as Python, SQL, Scala, and/or Spark.
• 2+ years of experience working on cloud-based systems (ideally Google Cloud) or AWS where you utilized the understanding of the simplicity and scalability of data pipelines and interfaces.
• Experience with access, transformation, and integration of data from multiple data sources
• Exposure to APIs, Cloudera, MapR
• A strong technical background, with experience building applications in a data-focused role in both Cloud and Traditional Data Warehouses

Our preferred requirements :

• Advanced degree in Data Science, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Math, Statistics, Information Science, or related quantitative field
• Comfortable with a broad array of relational and non-relational databases
• Relevant experience linking business requirements to digital product development.
• Experience writing and speaking about technical concepts to business, technical, and lay audiences and giving data-driven presentations.
• Inquisitive, proactive, and interested in learning new tools and techniques.
• Ability to influence and collaborate to create mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Foster exceptional customer relationships and solve for win-win outcomes with internal Ford and third-party customers.
• Problem formulation, solution scoping, and critical thinking
• Communicate effectively with all levels of the business, with well-developed written and oral skills, and work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Handle multiple project assignments with minimal direction, and escalate issues as necessary.

What you’ll receive in return:

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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage, generous PTO, retirement, and savings plans, incentive compensation, tuition assistance, a vehicle discount program, and much more _**

For information on Ford's salary and benefits, please visit: https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-2.pdf (_ This position is a range of salary grades 7 and 8 )**

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

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.