Software Engineer Lead

Dearborn, MI, United States

FCSD Tech – Sales and Distribution Order-To-Cash (OTC) Product Anchor (LL6)

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

Ford Customer Service Division, within Ford, is committed to provide our customers the “Always On” experience and our mission is to get our customers back on the road, in the shortest possible time. FCSD Tech delivers world class software that our

Dealers use to Diagnose, Repair & Service our vehicles

Customers use for a seamless Service experience

Ford enterprise uses to run a highly Profitable, Critical and Complex Parts & Service business

FCSD is a true one-stop shop, offering comprehensive Diagnostics, Repair & Service Capabilities for a full portfolio of Electrified, Hybrid and Internal combustion vehicles globally.

In this position...

Provide engineering leadership to the Sales & Distribution Order-To-Cash products within FCSD.

Lead the transformation of the North American Order Management process, by transitioning from several legacy systems to SAP S/4 HANA.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

Lead the NA Order Management Transformation by migrating from several legacy systems to SD on S/4 HANA.

Provide thought leadership for the development, structure, technology, and tools.

Ensures software engineering excellence (e.g. best practices and quality) is achieved within the product line- leverage functional knowledge, thought leadership and influence on driving “out-of-the-box” implementation and keep customizations to the bare minimum.

Collaborates with other Product and Product Line Anchors to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions across the portfolio.

Innovate and operate with an iterative, agile, and user-centric perspective.

Clearly communicate technology strategy and vision to team members and internal and external stakeholders.

Demonstrate software engineering excellence through actively Configuring, Coding, pairing, and performing code and architecture reviews with the software engineers within the product line.

Lead delivery of all approved projects - design, develop, deploy, and transition to operations all program and project commitments in a timely manner with high quality.

Support implementation of other initiatives and technical upgrades to the SAP platform

Accountable for issue resolution and service level performance

Ensure that appropriate security and controls are instituted within department and implemented within delivered solutions.

Ensure compliance with Ford Enterprise Technologies’ architecture standards for SAP implementations.

Responsible for resource management including resource planning, resource acquisition, employee development, employee satisfaction, workload management and compensation planning for SAP Technical team members.

Qualifications

You'll have...

Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field

Proven professional experience of 5+ years, working as an SD OTC consultant / architect in large complex SAP implementation projects, with hands-on experience in SD configuration.

Excellent understanding of the overall SAP SD module and how it integrates with other components of the S/4HANA Suite (S/4 Core, SPP, MM).

Demonstrated understanding and ability to drive API economy and solutions.

Ability to work individually and also lead the Technical team.

Ability to work collaboratively across the organization and navigate complex decision making in a rapidly changing environment.

Strong leadership and ability to motivate and lead teams including experience collaborating with engineers, designers, and Go-to-market leads.

Proven ability to work closely with senior leadership.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience and teach others.

Should possess complete knowledge on every phase of SAP implementation, including creation of business blueprint, Implementation based on a blueprint, creation of test cases, test scheduling and execution, key user training, roles and authorization, data migration, go-live support, and post go-live support.

Even better, you may have...

Knowledge and experience with SAP RISE.

Worked in SAP implementations in NA & EU.

Worked in Classic EWM to EWM S/4 migrations.

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, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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: Benefit Summary (https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-LL6-sal-plan-2.pdf)

This position is a salary grade LL6 .

This position is a range of salary grades LL6.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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