3DX Software Development Lead

Full Job Description Job#: Job Description: Position Description: Product Development (PD) Platform Ops is responsible for delivering, deploying, and maintaining scalable, highly-available environments for our next gen product lifecycle management (PLM) infrastructure & software. Our mantras gravitate around infrastructure-as-code and application configuration as code - using Ansible. With our application that we manage, were developing new methods of software engineering, developing software, developing pipelines, and much more. We are a small but rapidly growing team that is looking for skilled talent to help drive Ford into the future. We use all the newest & bleeding edge technologies throughout the business. If Ford is to evolve as a company long term - so do our backend platforms. Our primary responsibility is taking ownership of 3DX. 3DX (Dassaults 3DExperience Platform) is critical to long term success. Our department is modernizing processes to deliver the products that our engineers use everyday -- we are developing it like any other software. Skills Required: This role specifically is geared toward building our ecosystem of software development within our PDPO team. We want someone with many years of experience working in the PLM space to help evolve the way that we are deploying customization for the PLM space - specifically using Dassaults 3DX This includes but not specific to, widgets, data integrations, APIs, API wrappers, dashboards, interlinks, cross-platform integrations, and much more. While were not married to any specific coding language, we expect that you are an expert in one or many coding languages to help build guidelines as we grow and pull more people into this ecosystem. Acceptance and understanding of new methods are required for this role, that includes, using code for everything, front and back end, using the public cloud, using pipelines, using LLM/ML, & using SaaS products. Skills Preferred: - Experience with Tekton or Github Actions (Jenkins also acceptable) - Experience with GCP & Apigee - Experience using Github Enterprise, Github Actions, and Github Projects - Experience with Jira - A willingness to learn and grow within a fast paced team - Functional experience doing front/back end web development - Functional experience consuming APIs - Experience using open sourced code - Expert understanding of Git/Github (work or personal) - Understanding of the world of DevOps - Using an IDE effectively (i.e. VSCode) Experience Required: - 5+ years experience with a PLM platform - 5+ years working with Dassaults 3DX product line - 3+ years leading software development teams and/or developers - 10+ years being some form of software developer or engineer - Experience working in an AGILE working environment Education Required: - No education expectations are required but we expect that there is experience to back up any lack of formal education pathways Additional Information : This is an opportunity to work on highly visible emerging technology. will be exciting years for our growing platform team. While you may not know all of the ins and outs coming into this role for, we are willing to work to help you gain the knowledge necessary to be successful in this assignment. We are a modern, fast moving team that is very interested in likeminded people to join our team. If you are familiar with what we are looking for, PLM, and are passionate about software development - this is the right position for you. This role is perfect if you are looking to help evolve in the world of product development, software engineering, and DevOps -- all at once. This is a unique role that is focused on emerging technologies. T

Created: 2024-10-30