Ford’s application and technology portfolio underpins customer experience, manufacturing continuity, financial operations, product development, and enterprise resilience. This program establishes an AI-enabled operating model to identify cyber risk, accelerate remediation, prioritize modernization, and provide leaders a clear view of portfolio health. AI Frontier models have been outpacing humans in the discovery of vulnerabilities and even up exploiting these. This new organization AI enabled Technology Portfolio Security Modernization is primarily chartered to address this at corporate level.

Create a trusted enterprise baseline across 5,000+ applications, technology components, SaaS platforms, vendors, and supporting infrastructure; classify assets by business criticality, security exposure, compliance relevance, resilience, and modernization need; and use AI-enabled workflows to drive risk-based action at scale. The objective is to improve enterprise visibility, reduce cyber and operational risk, strengthen compliance readiness

The Technical Program Leader owns the integrated technical plan for the modernization program, assessing solution options, coordinating execution across workstreams, managing milestones, and driving issue resolution. This role bridges executive intent and day-to-day technical delivery.

• Create a complete and trusted inventory of technology assets across enterprise portfolios, including applications, technology components, SaaS platforms, vendors, and supporting infrastructure.

• Classify assets by business criticality, security exposure, compliance relevance, operational resilience, and modernization requirements.

• Identify and prioritize high-value assets, externally facing capabilities, and assets with elevated risk or material service-level implications.

• Define an AI-enabled assessment and remediation process that supports proactive monitoring, continuous validation, and faster decision-making.

• Establish clear governance across the enterprise, accountability, reporting, and execution cadence across technology, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, risk, compliance, and finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assess technical solution options for asset inventory, classification, and AI-enabled assessment tooling.
• Coordinate execution across cross-functional squads aligned to asset groups or risk themes.
• Manage milestones, dependencies, and risks; drive timely issue resolution and escalation.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture on modernization patterns and target-state guidance.
• Report program status, blockers, and decisions required to the Program Director and Operating Forum.
• Own the integrated program plan spanning company portfolio/data, cyber/risk, architecture, remediation approach and tooling workstreams. Understand and help triage vulnerabilities with Product teams
• Design and implement an enterprise AI risk governance framework aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.
• Facilitate daily standups, weekly Operating Forum, and support Steering Committee reporting.
• Track dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions across portfolio, cyber/risk, architecture, and tooling teams.
• Own program-level reporting, including monthly operating metrics for leadership audiences.
• Coordinate resourcing and capacity planning across the core program team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent field is required or work equivalent experience
• Relevant certifications (PMP, SAFe, CISSP, or equivalent)
• 10+ years in technical program management within cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, or application portfolio management.
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-workstream technology programs at enterprise scale.
• Strong background in risk and compliance, enterprise architecture, vulnerability management, or risk-based remediation prioritization.
• Working knowledge of NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and emerging AI regulatory requirements.
• Relevant certifications (CRISC, CISA, AI governance-specific credentials).
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise systems including CMDB/EAMS, ServiceNow, and enterprise asset management practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Experience integrating AI/ML-enabled tooling into security or IT operations workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for executive audiences.

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

•  Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.