Software Development Manager III, Amazon Digital Acceleration

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Development Manager, where you'll lead a talented team in building an innovative data analytics platform. This role involves developing strategies, driving product vision, and managing resources to ensure high-quality software solutions. You'll partner with science teams to implement ML/AI strategies and make critical technical decisions. Be part of a mission-driven team that powers digital commerce and enhances customer experiences globally. If you're passionate about technology and leadership, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years in team management.
• Expertise in multi-tier web services and software development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term strategy and roadmap for products.
• Lead a team to architect and deploy high-quality software solutions.

Skills

Engineering Experience

Team Management

Multi-tier Web Services

Software Development Life Cycle

Technical Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Software Development Tools

ML/AI Technologies

Job description

Software Development Manager III, Amazon Digital Acceleration

Amazon is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead and motivate a team building the next generation data analytics platform for digital businesses. This is an exceptional opportunity to be part of a team responsible for driving a successful, sustainable, and strategic business for Amazon. You will own building the data analytic platform and AI services to accelerate digital businesses.

We own services ranging from metadata discovery, data lineage, compliance automation, simplifying data access through gen AI and LLM, improving data quality through AI based detection etc. We service 100+ teams with a 20K monthly active user base.

Compliance and metadata: Automates thousands of global compliance requests daily, ensuring regulatory adherence across highly sensitive datasets.

AI integration: Automating analytics (LLM based text to QL), and building data and column lineage through AI integration.

Data quality: Powers real-time data quality monitoring and automated remediation, improving data reliability for millions of analytics & ML-driven decisions across our ecosystem.

Key job responsibilities

1. Develop the long-term strategy for your products and translate that into an achievable road map.
2. Drive product vision and adoption by influencing clients and partners.
3. Lead a nimble team of software engineers to architect, develop, test and deploy high quality software solutions with persistent customer focus.
4. Manage departmental resources: hiring, mentoring, career management and maintaining a high performing team.
5. Drive technical vision and architecture for products.
6. Make critical technical decisions balancing speed, quality, and operational excellence.
7. Partner with science teams to implement ML/AI strategies.
8. Lead design reviews and architecture discussions for complex distributed systems.

About the team

Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering, subscriptions, and device management for Prime, Amazon Video, Music, Audible, Alexa, and Kindle, amongst other digital businesses. We process billions of digital purchases every year and enable our digital businesses to grow their businesses worldwide. We are on a mission to be earth's best provider of one-time and recurring digital commerce, delivering a seamless and enjoyable post-purchase customer experience.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.

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.

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