Software Development Manager - Business Data Technologies, Business Data Technologies

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Amazon's eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience, serving millions of customer page views and orders per day.

As an organization within eCF, the Business Data Technology (BDT) group is no exception. BDT organization is at the center of Amazon's data-driven culture, with responsibility for the business analytics platform, providing data and data curation capabilities to thousands of internal and external customers worldwide.

We are looking for an innovative engineering manager to own, build, and grow multiple BDT solutions. In this role, you will grow and lead a team that will design, develop, test, and operate large scale distributed systems that fulfill critical business functions with impact across Amazon. As a member of the BDT leadership team you will help set and meet goals and you will shape our long term technical and business strategy.

In this strategic, high-visibility role you will lead your team of high performing engineers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize the software solutions for AWS cloud. We are looking for a hands-on SDM with an established background in developing high volume and highly available services, strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities

Working backwards from the customer translation complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.

Deliver systems and features on schedule with high quality

Stay current on technical knowledge to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, and work with the team in bringing new technologies on board

Mentor of junior engineers

Work across teams to drive overall technical strategy

A day in the life

- Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations

- Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous big data problems

- Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning

- Provide thought leadership and establish technical vision for the team

- Mentor and grow high performing SDEs to take on increasingly higher responsibilities

- Think big and work with Senior leadership, business stakeholders and engineering teams to define vision, strategy and requirements.

- Own all metrics around initiative goals you will define. We make decisions based on data.

- Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver tech requirements on time and with a high-degree of precision.

This is a role suitable for someone who wants to influence across organizations, work on high profile, high impact initiatives that impact Amazon's bottom line.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree, or Master's degree

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience

- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience

- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience delivering Big Data Analytics solutions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

- Experience taking a lead role in architecting, designing, and building complex systems

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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