Software Development Manager, Aws Support Kumo

Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited in Cape Town seeks a Technical Leader to drive the CIM platform, lead a team of software engineers, and partner with product management to deliver scalable, secure, and high-quality support products using GenAI technologies. You will mentor the team, shape career growth, and own performance outcomes.

You will influence architecture, manage delivery roadmaps, and ensure operational excellence while scaling with Amazon’s global

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• Knowledge of full software/hardware/networks development lifecycle.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/CE or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute on product vision in partnership with your product manager.
• Develop roadmaps, track progress, and manage risks for your team.
• Own agile development process and ensure it serves the team.
• Lead performance management and career development for team members.
• Ensure technical excellence with security, availability, and best practices.
• Lead recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding of engineers.
• Handle incident escalation and drive improvements across tools and processes.
• Develop and mentor a high-performing, world-class engineering team.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile development

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related

Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Job description

Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with recent examples of being named #1 in customer service, #1 most trusted, and #2 most innovative. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in Cloud technologies. AWS Support provides global technical support to a wide range of external customers as they build mission-critical applications on top of AWS services. As a member of the AWS Support team, you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology - assisting a global list of companies that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications.

We are looking for a technical leader who will lead teams in our Customer Interaction Management organization (CIM). CIM owns the products that ensure AWS customers can always get support and the frontline builders who provide support to our customers. Our services need to be highly scalable, highly available, handle diverse frameworks and integrations, and make it easier for our customers to interact with our Support organization. The technical leader needs to be able to evaluate and evolve our technology stack as the cloud around them evolves in an era of GenAI and be ready to invent new ways of solving exciting new challenges every day. The leader should be a strong operator, who is comfortable operating production systems that hundreds of thousands of Enterprise and Business customers depend on.

You are passionate about improving the AWS customer's support experience and executing on our vision of integrated support, building innovative support products using the latest GenAI technologies to create delightful customer experiences while allowing our support organization to scale. You will be responsible to lead a team of engineers and responsible for their career growth and job satisfaction.

Key job responsibilities

Product

You will closely partner with your product manager to define and execute on the vision for your product. You will set and help your development team maintain line-of-sight to key product goals.

Projects

You will be responsible for developing a roadmap and delivery plan for your team as well as track progress against key goals. You will identify dependencies and risks and mitigate risks before they start to impact project goals and manage expectations when things don't go as planned.

Process

You, together with your team, have the responsibility to own the team's development process. You should be comfortable running an agile development process and ensure it serves the team, rather than the team serving it.

People

You will own all facets of performance management and career development for your team. Helping team members achieve their career objectives through regular one-on-one engagements is required. You will mentor all members in order to maintain a well-rounded, world class organization. You will own and be accountable for the output and performance of your team.

Technical and operational excellence

You should ensure your team is technically excellent. That includes ensuring security remains your top priority, with operations second and features third. You should build for high-availability and utilize best-in-class native AWS technologies. You will mentor your team on design best practice, even though your engineers ultimately own the solution.

Recruiting and Hiring

You will take the lead in hiring quality people who not only fit the needs of the current organization but will allow the team to scale with our customer and service growth. You will coordinate with Amazon and external recruiting staff to evaluate potential candidates, participate in initial phone screens and provide relevant guidance and feedback during onsite interview loops. You will also be responsible for ensuring that proper training takes place for all new hires.

Incident and Escalations Management

You will be the point of contact for enquiries regarding escalations and service incidents impacting our case management customers, for services you own or the broader case management space during your coverage period. The manager is expected to respond to critical issues regarding engagement and incident management on an as needed basis. You will be driving initiatives regarding improvements to existing tools & processes and providing feedback on new practices & procedures in order to scale with the rapid expansion of the AWS services and customer base.

About the team

You will manage a team consists of highly skilled software development engineers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering 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
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent

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
• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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