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Technical Product Manager at Ford Pro in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN
Skills
Job Description
Ford’s EU Order to delivery product group is a function, part of Global Order to Delivery Function in Enterprise Technology, is committed to provide a platform for the order management function for our European and IMG dealer’s. VISTA suite of applications provides the ability to manage, track and trace across various stages of the orders in the manufacturing process
• VISTA is a mission critical application that supports 150+ markets across European and IMG region.
• Dealers use VISTA application to Create/Manage/Cancel and Track their orders
• National sales company and regional admins to manage orders for the future
• Retail customer ordering supported via E-comm
• Dealers has the ability to search Ford owned, Dealer owned stocks using various services on this function
In this position you will...
• Design and deliver industry-leading products and services to maximize value for customers.
• Provide techo-functional product leadership to the team
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Strategic Product & Technical Vision: Own the end-to-end product lifecycle—from envisioning and framing to launch—while maintaining a constant balance between business viability, user desirability, and technical feasibility.
- VISTA application suite is undergoing a massive technology modernization in alignment with the Global order fulfilment portfolio functions. Need to be able to drive that vison.
Backlog Engineering & Scoping: Translate high-level business visions into actionable, prioritized backlogs. Lead quarterly scoping sessions to break down complex roadmaps into manageable features, user stories, and technical acceptance criteria.
Software Engineering Excellence: Champion and lead "Software Engineering Excellence" practices, including the implementation of robust CI/CD processes, development methodologies, and the selection of modern technology stacks and tools.
Technical knowhow,
- Exposure on Oracle and PLSQL, Java Modernization experience and Data base modernization
User-Centric Validation: Drive product discovery through experiments, user interviews, and data insights, ensuring that technical development is always rooted in validated user needs and iterative feedback.
Architectural & Portfolio Alignment: Collaborate with architects and other Product Line managers to reduce system complexity, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions that impact the broader portfolio.
Overall Release Management: Vista is a multi PDO team that delivers the solution together. In this role, you will lead the release management and maintain the release cadence in accordance with the S-ox compliance.
Cross-Functional Delivery Leadership: Work hands-on with cross-functional teams (Design, Engineering, and Business) to plan and deliver software that meets both functional requirements and platform foundation capabilities.
Stakeholder Translation & Management: Serve as the primary liaison for Business Partners, helping them navigate iterative development cycles and GTM (Go-To-Market) strategies while clearly communicating technical strategy and risks.
Risk Mitigation & Impediment Removal: Actively identify, communicate, and mitigate technical and functional risks. Proactively remove blockers to ensure the team maintains high velocity and product delivery remains on track.
Product & Technical Health Assessment: Continuously monitor the "overall health" of the product—including code quality, system performance, and user adoption—to prompt key decisions for continuous improvement.
Mentorship & Process Innovation: Foster a culture of continuous learning by mentoring team members in Agile/XP methods and product management techniques, while constantly iterating on processes to improve team efficiency.
Qualifications
Qualifications and Skills
- 10+ years of overall expereince
- 5+ years of product management expertise with a solid foundation in agile software development.
5+ years of domain knowledge in Supply Chain, Order Management or Dealer Experience.
- Certification relevant to product management and / or software engineering or commitment to obtain within 6 months.
- Leadership experience in creating a psychologically safe team environment and blameless retros.
- Proven ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and experience in creating and managing product backlogs.
- Expertise leading large scale transformations and systems thinking.
- Expertise in leading cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations.
- Demonstrated DevSecOps mindset, with full ownership of development, security, and operational support aspects of a product.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience in monitoring activities and tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support.
- Ability to manage complex integrations and dependencies across various products, product lines, and product groups.
- Proven leadership skills in people management, team building, and coaching, with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to identify innovative solutions.
- Strong understanding of Load/Performance testing and A/B testing methodologies.
- Experience in service-oriented architecture and the development of APIs/Microservices.
- Bachelor degree or masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Good to have:
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Familiarity with serverless computing and event-driven architecture.
- Experience with Software Engineering tools and practices such as
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
- Google Cloud Platform and Tekton CI/CD deployment pipeline automation.
- Java programming and experience with databases such as Postgres SQL and MS SQL/Oracle.
- Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring for operational support.
- Understanding of network security principles and practices.
- Familiarity with emerging technologies such as Large Language Models
- Experience in the automotive industry or related technology fields.