DescriptionAre you interested in working with the latest technology in the cloud computing space?The Amazon Foundational People Data Services (FPDS) organization is building cutting-edge solutions to enable employees and managers to self-serve changes across all human resource processes.Join us in building an innovative technology using Amazon Web Services to meet the complex and unique demands of managing nearly 3,000,000 employees globally. We dive deep to insist on the highest standards in architecture, coding, testing, deploying, and maintaining every aspect of our offerings.Mentorship & Career Growth: Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.Work/Life Balance: Our team also maintains an inclusive team culture, and we put a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success.Our teams provide access and storage of human capital information to an extensive ecosystem across Amazon and its associated vendors as we build new systems to take us into the future. Data from our platform is vital to calculate compensation, payroll, benefits, hiring, onboarding and separation activities, security and access controls, fulfillment center operations, and provide many other low-friction business processes and world-class experiences for everyone at Amazon who innovates on behalf of our customers.Our engineering teams continuously strive to build and run an infrastructure that can process billions of queries, provide data consistency and availability-related solutions in a distributed systems architecture, functional data materialization for unique business use cases, data visualization and analytics products, and set up data privacy controls. We are building a one-of-a-kind cloud-native platform uniquely positioned to accelerate delivering customer value across Amazon!Key job responsibilities
Lead your team to build a brand new product with quality, robustness and Amazon sized scale as top priorities.
Prioritize being a really great people manager. Building, motivating, rewarding and coaching a diverse team of Software Development Engineers is the most important part of this role. You will recruit and retain top talent and excel in day-to-day people and performance management tasks.
Contribute to architecture and design discussions for full stack software.
Lead your team to evolve our service architecture with quality, robustness and Amazon sized scale as top priorities. You will regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues.
Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps.
Help your team sort out technical and product requirements and priorities. Deliver product roadmap items and cross-team projects.
Delight your customers. Internalize our customer challenges and derive creative solutions which apply new and innovative technology.
A day in the lifeYou'll lead a team owning cutting-edge projects at the forefront of innovation, pushing boundaries and creating solutions that are shaping the future. Your team is comprised of talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. In this role, you'll have the unique ability to influence software architecture on a global scale. Your expertise and insights will have a direct impact on how our products are developed and implemented worldwide. You'll be working on projects that directly impact our customers and contribute to their success. And while you're making a difference, you'll also have continuous learning and professional growth opportunities.About the teamThe Data Producer eXperience (DPX) organization’s primary mission is to enable data producers to securely and efficiently store, describe, and vend data to downstream data consumers at Amazon scale, providing a seamless experience with greater visibility, security and privacy built into all of our services. We strive to empower data producers to get their data to market faster with improved time to value.Basic Qualifications
3+ years of engineering team management experience
7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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
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
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.