Amazon Software Development Manager - Industrial Controls 

United Kingdom, England, London 

534576843

As a Manager, you will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact team's long-term vision. You will be responsible for hiring and leading a team of engineers responsible for building high performing applications that interact with large scale distributed systems. In this position you will partner with product managers, cross-functional teams to execute both strategic and tactical roadmaps. A successful candidate will have an established background with strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.Key job responsibilities
You will build and manage a team of software engineers (from new grads to senior engineers) by hiring, coaching, and promoting. You will foster career growth and a strong team culture by leading and mentoring engineers with various experiences.
You will set high engineering standards and operational excellence for the team, and help them deliver incremental value to customers by administering agile development process.
You will effectively communicate within your team, with your peers, with senior leaders and with stakeholders. Through writing, you’ll distill and communicate technical concepts and challenges and be willing to argue for the right outcomes using data, conviction and diplomacy.
You will work with other teams and team members to break down complex challenges, iterate on designs, estimate engineering efforts, and create work-back schedules. You will be deeply in the details of any trade-offs between approaches. You’ll be an enabler and a force-multiplier for your team.A day in the lifeYou’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completio
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy