Director of Digital Experience Engineering leading Ford Credit's technology transformation through innovative digital platforms and AI. Managing a team to enhance customer-facing capabilities and technology strategies.
Responsibilities
Lead a team of 50+ experienced technical professionals (90% Engineering, 10% Product Managers) to build, grow and maintain all of Ford Credit's digital assets and touchpoints across Ford Credit Operations.
Be accountable for high-quality and efficient delivery of Ford Credit technology roadmap and innovation across all Digital Platforms, AI enablement and platforms, omni-channel capabilities across touchpoints.
Leverage Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Artificial Intelligence and DevOps to ensure efficient and effective development across the back end and front end systems.
Assess, evangelize, and introduce modern technologies and capabilities across the organization to improve Ford Credit's effectiveness.
Be the catalyst for technology transformation across the digital organization to ensure that Ford Credit has the appropriate software development process, organization capabilities and automated solutions to enable Ford Credit strategies.
Take an active role as a technology business partner, involved in the advancement of modern technology applications and strategies for customer-facing solutions that drive loyalty and grow customer lifetime value.
Monitor and introduce trends, new and emerging technologies, processes, and best practices on global digital area.
Drive the culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Understands business and customer priorities, with a lens for technical feasibility to influence product group backlogs in partnership with the Mission leads/Product Owners.
Work with lead Product Owner matched pair to coordinate quarterly prioritization process while delivering the quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results).
Measure the effectiveness of digital experiences and adjust the delivery plan based on learning, user, and stakeholder feedback.
Verifies that the delivered software group products meet desired encryption, security, and business outcomes.
Provide constructive peer review feedback for product ideas submitted from other areas of the organization.
Innovate and operate with an Agile, API, and Cloud-Native perspective.
Provide industry thought leadership for Policies, Processes, People and Tools, while driving a software development lifecycle.
Continue to evolve the organization in support of the PDO model and use of Agile methods.
Drive the organization towards AI ways of SDLC to drive productivity including use of VIBE coding and other methodologies.
Requirements
15+ years of progressively senior technology leadership experiences with large scale outcomes aimed at consumers.
Demonstrated technical vision with strong Digital Platforms and AI alongside DevSecOps expertise across large-scale Agile teams.
Proven experience in leveraging digital, big data, cloud, and AI (Artificial Intelligence) for competitive advantage
Experience with formulating vision and strategy to transform, simplify, and modernize the implementation of customer-facing capabilities
15+ years with progressive responsibilities in digital product, platforms development, AI using Agile/vibe mode
Experience with leading cloud-based application teams
Experience with underlying application program (API) methods for systems integrations/data exchanges
Coordination, integration, and testing activities within and outside of the product line
Operational experience supporting systems in a 24*7 “always on” environment
Defining analytics to be collected regarding the product, and prioritization of their collection
Deep troubleshooting skills and capabilities to lead a triage team across a complex ecosystem with multiple application and service providers in times of critical service interruption
Ability to influence business partners to develop products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable
Ability to lead a highly skilled LL6 team and a portfolio of applications that are at various stages of the lifecycle with varying scope and complexity
Experience in lean product management and effective use of the build, measure, learn cycle.
Instrumenting software to measure software effectiveness
Setup of experiments to lower risk and promote learning
Innovative and able to operate with an iterative, Agile, and user-centric perspective
Effective communication, collaborative, and influencing skills
Strong leadership and the ability to teach others
Understanding of cloud native software design patterns
Connected to industry trends and direction by both technology companies and other captive finance companies.
Benefits
Travel: Fully remote or minimal travel, depending on individual’s preference
Drive the culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Assessment, evangelization, and introduction of modern technologies and capabilities across the organization to improve effectiveness.
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