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Ford Motor Company Manager - Software Product Management in Chennai, India
As a Product manager for Homologate and Certify you will be leading a product team based in FBS India to deliver IT capabilities and drive product modernization initiatives that are part of the Homologate and Certify Roadmap. You will also interact with a Global team in NA, EU, and China.
Responsible for driving the vision, strategy and roadmap of products for Regulatory Compliance Management product line.
Responsible for Delivery of products through product steering and prioritization of demand following the process.
Responsible for technical and architectural guidance to the teams while identifying opportunities to implement microservices.
Drive agile practices and behaviors within the product team, through demonstration of automated testing, refactoring, CI/CD
Actively assesses the overall health of the product to sustain and continuously improve PDO/Service's SDPI metrics.
Responsible for managing purchase service contracts as warranted.
Responsible for developing talent, subject matter experts and high performing team.
Focus on operational excellence and deliverables with high quality.
Manage project budget, including planning, actual and forecast financials.
Manage vendor relationships to ensure delivery within agreed scope of work.
Lead product release plans and drive deployment of new capabilities into production.
Foster CI/CD pipelines with integrated code quality
Emphasize on reuse and microservices architecture.
Focus on human centered design approach before development starts.
Focus on iterative development and Minimum Viable Product
Adopt best practices that will make the team more agile.
Use metrics as a tool to shape and align work, anticipate demand, open conversations, and learn
Must Have
Bachelors or master’s in computer science or engineering discipline (specifically Automobile / Mechanical is preferred)
10+ years of progressive responsibilities in IT including minimum 5 years Product Management expertise and Agile Software development.
Good communication, collaborative and influencing skills.
Proven ability to work closely with all levels of management in varying areas of business and IT.
Develop and Maintain knowledge of regulatory solutions.
Knowledge and experience in application migration to Cloud (GCP/ Azure)
Develop Strategies with E2E processes mindset to arrive at implementable solutions that adds business value.
Vendor Management and negotiation skills
Experience in running Product Driven Organization agile teams.
Hands-on with technology (Development tools / Software management tools)
Demonstrated ability to drive development of highly technical solutions with a platform mindset.
Technical know-how in service-oriented architecture, development of APIs / Microservices on Google Cloud Platform with Tekton CI/CD deployment pipe automation is a must.
Technical know-how in Java, Postgres SQL, Angular, MongoDB
Demonstrated ability of DevSecOps mindset with full ownership of development, security, and operational support aspects of a product
Ability to manage complex integration and dependencies across various products, product lines and product groups.
Strong people management, team building and personnel development skills - ability to motivate.
Nice to Have
Domain Knowledge of Automotive Industry - specifically Manufacturing space preferred
Prior knowledge / Work experience is Vehicle Compliance space will be an added plus
Requisition ID : 28717