Sr. SDM

Job description

DESCRIPTION

AWS is looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to join an ambitious new undertaking. You will lead the entire engineering lifecycle for multiple products including planning, design, prototyping, launching, and managing operations.

The AI team within AWS is responsible for setting strategies for delivering machine learning services across multiple segments and requirements to AWS customers. As a Senior Software Development Manager, you will be part of the larger engineering leadership community at AWS. This community plays a critical role in establishing engineering excellence across the org, working closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements, influences our long-term technical and business strategy, helps us hire a talented team and ultimately enables us to rapidly deliver innovative solutions to our customers.

Candidates should have deep experience working in building scalable, secure and compliant services for our customers. Candidates must have great communication skills and be highly technical, with the ability to dive deep with AWS customers and partners at any level, from executive to developer. Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required.

A successful candidate will bring a passion for technology services, experience building solutions for customers and partners, strong business acumen and judgment, ability to define visionary, ground breaking products, desire to have an industry-wide impact and ability to work within a fast moving environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.

Some context on the role:
· Your work will have direct impact and help to shape an entire industry.
· This is a highly visible role, operating with many technical leaders and product managers across AWS AI - with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
· You will drive project execution, recruit, hire and develop the world's top engineering talent.
· We're looking for candidates that have acted as a technical leader and built high-performance, scalable, and robust systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment.
The Sr. SDM will:
· Own the development of multiple products/services end-to-end.
· Build and manage new (and existing) engineering teams from to launch new products/services
· Provide technical direction.
· Ensure cohesion in terms of broader initiative strategy and integration between related products.
· Establish and execute short and long-term roadmaps for the business.
· Drive continual improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the business platform while keeping an extremely high bar customer trust, performance, and availability.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· The ideal candidate has a track record of launching projects with Java/C#, C++, Perl, and distributed computing technologies
· Experience taking a leadership role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
· Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
· Experience mentoring and growing Software Engineers and SDM’s
· Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
· Hands-on expertise in providing a consistent customer experience and integration between multiple services or products
· Experience working backwards from the customer and delivering innovative, simple solutions
· Master's Degree/PhD in Computer Science or related field

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Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience in partnering with product management teams
· 5+ years of people management experience, managing engineers and other managers
· 10+ years of relevant engineering experience