Software Engineering Director

Ford Motor Company • Washington, DC • 4h ago

Ford Pro is a global business within Ford Motor Company focused on delivering productivity solutions to commercial customers. We offer a comprehensive suite of vehicles, charging infrastructure, software, and services tailored to fleet and business needs. Our technology team powers the digital backbone of Ford Pro, enabling smarter fleet management and customer engagement through platforms like Salesforce CRM.

The Salesforce Software Engineering Director is a senior technical leadership role responsible for guiding the architecture, integration, and delivery of Salesforce CRM solutions across Ford Pro's product ecosystem. This role combines deep technical expertise in Salesforce and MuleSoft with a servant leadership mindset to foster collaboration, drive platform consistency, and ensure strategic alignment across product groups.

What you'll do...

Technical Architecture & Delivery

Architect scalable, secure, and performant Salesforce CRM solutions aligned with Salesforce.com Standard Practices and Ford Pro's Common Engineering Policies (CEP), including API standards, logging norms, and release management.

Lead MuleSoft integration strategies to connect Salesforce with internal and external systems.

Drive Agile product development practices using JIRA to manage backlog, sprints, releases, and retrospectives.

Validate and refine target state architectures through usability testing, performance/load testing, and continuous improvement.

Servant Leadership & Collaboration

Act as a consensus builder across other Ford Pro product groups

Facilitate alignment on technical decisions, team allocations, and product lifecycle transitions.

Promote transparency and shared accountability using progress reporting tools and OKR's

Champion Community of Practice (CoP) principles to ensure consistency in engineering and product management practices.

Financial Acquisition & Resource Planning

Support financial and headcount forecasting through collaborative internal processes and related tools.

Align product investments with strategic priorities and ensure efficient resource allocation.

Participate in Tech Council reviews for budget approvals and product lifecycle decisions.

You'll have...

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field or a combination of education and experience

12+ years of experience in enterprise CRM platforms, with at least 7 years in Salesforce architecture and development.

Salesforce Platform Architecture (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud)

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (API design, RAML, connectors, orchestration)

RESTful API design and versioning

CI/CD pipelines and release management, Copado Preferred

Logging and monitoring standards (aligned with Ford Pro's CEP)

Cloud architecture validation and performance/load testing

Usability testing and persona-driven design

Git-based source control and repository management

Tool proficiency: JIRA, Microsoft Teams, Miro

Framework fluency: Salesforce Well-Architected Framework

Cloud platform expertise: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud platform for hybrid and scalable integrations

3+ years of experience with MuleSoft integration and API-led connectivity.

Proven experience leading cross-functional technical teams in Agile environments.

Strong understanding of financial acquisition and resource planning processes.

Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and build consensus across diverse teams

Even better, you may have...

Salesforce Certified Application Architect

Salesforce Certified System Architect

Salesforce Certified Integration Architecture Designer

Other Salesforce Designer Certifications

MuleSoft Certified Associate

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or other public cloud certifications

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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL5NonHTHD

SOUTHEAST MI RESIDENTS: This role is posted as remote unless you reside within 50 miles of Dearborn, MI-in which case we request on-site presence up to 4 days a week.

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.

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.

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