Software Development Manager, Amazon Compliance Shared Services

Description

Compliance Shared Services are looking for a Software Development Manager to build software systems that validate regulatory compliance across our supply chain, and make achieving compliance simpler for selling partners.

We research, innovate, advance the state-of-the-art, and build ML systems to proactively identify safety and compliance risks in Amazon's retail business. We leverage computer vision and NLP to enable the analysis, validation and data extraction from aggregated volumes of tens of millions of documents and images (such as safety datasheets, declarations of conformity, product labels) in Amazon catalog across all marketplaces. We envision and build best in class media processing platform and tools that enable us to meet our objectives and scale cost effectively, as we continue to expand into newer and complex businesses and grow our selection.

To be successful you will need to be able to keep the long-term objectives in mind while guiding the team through short-term obstacles. You drive to develop the careers of your developers, improve our development processes, remove bottlenecks and friction, and allow the team to move at a fast pace. You will need to collaborate closely with business leads, product owners, technical program managers and partner teams. You are comfortable with a degree of ambiguity and are always open to identifying alternative paths.

What does an ideal Software Development Manager candidate look like? First, you have demonstrated strong technical, project management and leadership skills by previously leading teams of software engineers to develop products that delight users. You love attracting and growing high-caliber talent, and have a record of accomplishments to prove it.

Key job responsibilities
1) Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments; Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment.
2) Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.
3) Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.
4) Collaborating closely with senior leaders across the Lifecycle Engagement Organization to influence and drive broader product and technical strategy alignment.
5) Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.

About the team
Compliance Shared Services (CoSS) vision is to provide best-in-class automation of controls for internal compliance and business programs (our primary customers) to lower costs in the Amazon flywheel on behalf of our end customers: buyers and selling partners. We provide easy-to-use shared services with data privacy, security and tenant isolation across all stages, while continuously raising industry standards for automation performance and cost efficiency, giving our program customers confidence that they have access to optimal cost-efficient automation options to better serve their end customers.

Basic qualifications

- Experience in engineering team management
- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
- 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 and 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

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