Sr. Software Development Manager

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a seasoned technical leader to spearhead the development of a new supply chain SaaS offering. This role involves leading software development teams, driving design and implementation of distributed services, and collaborating with senior executives to shape long-term strategy and goals. Ideal candidates will have extensive engineering and team management experience, coupled with a hands-on approach to architecture and design.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience.
• Experience in planning and delivering consumer software.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor and lead software development teams.
• Lead design, implementation, and deployment of large-scale services.
• Collaborate with senior executives to develop business strategies.

Skills

Engineering experience

Team management

Agile project management

Job description

Are you looking for an opportunity to create a new supply chain product? We are a startup team working working to enable organizations across the world with reliable, cost effective and flexible end-to-end supply chain solutions, to help them scale, succeed and offer best in class experience to their customers.

We are looking for leaders who are seeking opportunities to build a new multi-tenant, software-as-a-services (SaaS) offering for our customers using AWS technologies. You’ll be joining a team building a new world class product. We aim to create a highly technical, entrepreneurial, collaborative and fun culture.

The ideal candidate will be an innovative, seasoned technical leader with a demonstrated history in delivering results. This leader will have managed multi-team organizations while maintaining the ability to dive deep on customer experience, architecture, and technical details. Success in this role requires close collaboration with senior leaders/execs across Amazon and the ability to influence their technical architecture. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong business judgment, ability to define architecture and customer products. You and your team will build big leaders who care about customers, people, and results. Operational excellence is key, as the systems owned by this organization

Key job responsibilities
- Hire, mentor and lead software development teams including leaders.
- Lead design, implementation, and deployment of successful highly distributed, large scale services.
- Play a critical role in the broad business planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements. Help form long-term technical and business strategy and goals.
- Understand business context to decisions made within and across groups.
- Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach. Be a hands-on technical leader and contributor.
- Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.
- Work with globally distributed team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications

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