Ford Motor Company

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Job Description: • Manage, coach, and develop a team of Risk Engineers with diverse technical skill sets. • Set clear expectations for technical rigor, ownership, and outcomes. • Build a high-performing culture that values engineering excellence, accountability, and collaboration. • Support career development, performance management, and succession planning. • Establish and maintain technical direction for how risk is engineered into platforms, architectures, and pipelines. • Ensure risk requirements are consistently translated into implementable solution patterns, not just documentation. • Prioritize work based on risk reduction value, system criticality, and recovery dependencies. • Review and challenge designs to ensure controls are effective, automatable, and evidence-driven. • Partner with cloud, platform, security, and SRE leaders to embed risk controls directly into engineering workflows. • Balance near-term risk mitigation with long-term architectural resilience. • Represent Risk Engineering in senior forums, articulating tradeoffs and decisions with clarity and credibility. • Ensure teams deliver outcomes that measurably reduce risk—not just activity. Requirements: • 10+ years in IT operations & engineering, security engineering, SRE, or technical risk roles • 5+ years managing engineers or technical practitioners in a large enterprise • Demonstrated success leading teams to deliver large scale technical solutions as code, in order to seize opportunity and/or to address risk • Solid understanding of how risk manifests in technology, especially cloud, distributed systems, identity, and recovery architectures • Proven ability to influence across organizational and functional boundaries. Benefits: • 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.