Software Development Manager - Industrial Controls, Data Center Builder Tools

Amazon.com, Inc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Team Culture

Mentorship & Career Growth

Work/Life Balance

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Data Center Builder Tools team. You will own and grow a portfolio of on-premise industrial automation software for data center operations, partnering with product managers to align roadmaps and deliver scalable solutions.

You will hire and mentor engineers, drive engineering standards, and manage sprint planning, design reviews, and service health in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering team management and building high-performing teams.
• Experience designing or architecting scalable software systems and diagnosing architectural tradeoffs.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring and managing software engineers to improve performance.
• Travel up to 20% of the time.
• Experience with hardware/software integration and real-time systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a team of software engineers through hiring, coaching, and career development.
• Set engineering standards and operational excellence, and oversee agile processes.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and leadership, advocating for outcomes with data and diplomacy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to break down complex challenges and plan work with schedules.

Skills

Engineering management

Software architecture

Cross-team collaboration

Hiring & mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

The Data Center Builder Tools team is looking for an innovative, self-directed Software Development Manager to lead the effort in building the Data Center Industrial Controls Run-times team. You will build and own a team with a portfolio of on-premise industrial automation software in mission critical building management and electrical power infrastructure. As a Manager, you will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact team's long‑term vision. You will be responsible for hiring and leading a team of engineers responsible for building high performing applications that interact with large scale distributed systems. In this position you will partner with product managers, cross‑functional teams to execute both strategic and tactical roadmaps. A successful candidate will have an established background with strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills and motivation to achieve results in a fast‑paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a team of software engineers (from new grads to senior engineers) by hiring, coaching, and promoting. You will foster career growth and a strong team culture by leading and mentoring engineers with various experiences.
• Set high engineering standards and operational excellence for the team, and help them deliver incremental value to customers by administering agile development process.
• Effectively communicate within your team, with your peers, with senior leaders and with stakeholders. Through writing, you’ll distil and communicate technical concepts and challenges and be willing to argue for the right outcomes using data, conviction and diplomacy.
• Work with other teams and team members to break down complex challenges, iterate on designs, estimate engineering efforts, and create work‑back schedules. You will be deeply in the details of any trade‑offs between approaches. You’ll be an enabler and a force‑multiplier for your team.

A day in the life You will lead a team of engineers building software that directly supports internal deployment teams and data center operations teams across Amazon’s global infrastructure. You will drive technical roadmaps, remove blockers for your engineers, and partner closely with stakeholders to understand operational challenges and translate them into scalable software solutions. You will own sprint planning, design reviews, and service health, while coaching and growing your team. Given the multi‑national footprint of our facilities, you will occasionally travel to engage directly with customers, gather requirements, and ensure the tools your team builds meet real‑world operational needs.

About the team The Data Center Builder Tools team aims to make industrial controls easy to deploy and update across thousands of devices globally. We serve building management and electrical controls experts along with site operations with our modernized industrial controls systems which are safely and securely managed at scale.

Qualifications

• 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 in engineering team management
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems, 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
• Travel up to 20% of the time
• Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware, or experience in computer architecture
• Experience with hardware/software integration and real-time systems
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Company Details

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Benefits & Perks

• Inclusive Team Culture: Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee‑led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
• Mentorship & Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, mentorship and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.
• Work/Life Balance: We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

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