Ford Motor Company

Data Engineer

Ford Motor Company  •  Chennai, IN (Onsite)  •  4 days ago
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Job Description

We do not want someone who approaches data from a coding, pipeline, or systems-architecture perspective.

Instead, we need a strategic business thinker who acts, talks, and works like the business. Your mission is to understand how our business functions, define how our business concepts and data relate to one another (ontology), and own the roadmap to make our business data "AI-ready" from a functional and logical standpoint. You will act as the ultimate bridge, translating real-world business operations into structured, meaningful data definitions that technical teams can later implement.

  • Own the Roadmap & Vision: Build, maintain, and execute the product roadmap for our business data domains. Define "what" we need to build and "why" from a business-value perspective.
  • Lead Business Ontology & Semantics: Work directly with business stakeholders across various departments to define, standardize, and map key business concepts, relationships, and rules (e.g., defining exactly what a "customer," "transaction," or "product lifecycle" means across different business units).
  • Drive the "AI-Ready" Data Strategy: Define the business standards and context required to make our data ready for AI applications. You will ensure our data has the logical structure, consistency, and metadata required for AI models to understand it.
  • Act as the Business-to-Tech Bridge: Translate complex business rules and semantic models into clear, high-quality functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
  • Stakeholder & Change Management: Champion the adoption of standardized business terms and data structures across the organization. Collaborate with business leaders to ensure their data needs are prioritized and represented.

What We Are Looking For (Requirements)

  • 3 to 5 years of experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner, or Business Analyst working closely with business operations.
  • Strong Logical & Conceptual Thinking: Proven experience in logical domain modeling, taxonomy creation, business glossary development, or business process mapping. You know how to organize complex information logically.
  • Business-First Mindset: You approach challenges from a business-value, operational efficiency, and customer-experience perspective, not a technology perspective.
  • Roadmap Ownership: Experience managing a product backlog, prioritizing initiatives, and managing stakeholder expectations.
  • Exceptional Communication: The ability to facilitate workshops with business leaders, ask the right questions to uncover hidden business logic, and clearly document definitions.
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About Ford Motor Company

We don't just make history -- we make the future. Ford put the world on wheels over a century ago, and our teams are re-inventing icons and creating groundbreaking connected and electric vehicles for the next century. We believe in serving our customers, our communities, and the world. If you do, too, come move the world and make the future with us.

Ford is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet. We are here to provide the means for every person to move and pursue their dreams, serving as a bridge between personal freedom and the future of mobility. In that pursuit, our 186,000 employees around the world help to set the pace of innovation every day.

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Industry
Automotive & Mobility
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Dearborn, Michigan
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
ford.com
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