Technical Program Manager

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, MI +1 · Enterprise Technology

Technical Program Manager for Ford Motor Credit Company's Accounts Servicing Systems team, focusing on the Customer Domain. The role involves leading planning and execution of strategic initiatives, driving delivery across cross-functional teams, managing project governance, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements in a highly regulated environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead planning and execution for strategic Accounts platform initiatives. Define scope, timelines, resource needs, and success criteria aligned with business objectives, customer outcomes, and regulatory requirements.
  2. Drive delivery across engineering, QA, operations, architecture, compliance, and business stakeholders. Manage dependencies and integrations with upstream/downstream systems to ensure smooth coordination.
  3. Establish and run project governance rituals (kickoffs, status meetings, steering committees, retrospectives). Track project KPIs (schedule variance, scope changes, quality metrics, delivery velocity) and communicate complex technical issues in clear, business-focused language.
  4. Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure all deliverables meet strict regulatory requirements (e.g., SOX, GDPR) and audit standards.
  5. Manage project scope and change control. Assess impacts of scope changes, clearly communicate tradeoffs, and ensure stakeholder alignment. Lead change management activities including release planning, deployment schedules, runbooks, and rollback plans.

Skills

Required

  • Program management or product management experience
  • Technical background with understanding of enterprise systems, APIs, integration patterns, reliability/observability, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience managing technical projects in highly regulated environments
  • Proficiency with project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) and tools (JIRA, MS Project, Confluence, etc.)
  • Experience developing and prioritizing strategic roadmaps
  • Strong analytical skills

Nice to have

  • Experience working directly with critical, high-availability systems (such as financial, accounts, or servicing systems)
  • Exposure to both legacy technologies and modern tech stacks (cloud platforms, containers, event streaming, microservices)
  • Familiarity with Java, GCP, Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE practices

What the JD emphasized

  • strict regulatory requirements
  • highly regulated environments
  • strict change control and compliance requirements