Amazon Software Development Manager GTMC SIERRA 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

913218373

As an SDM in GTMC SIERRA (Science, Insights, Experience, Research, Reporting & Analytics), you'll lead a team of software engineers requiring partnership across frontend, backend, applied science, UX, and data engineering functions to integrate insights into Global Talent Management and Compentsation (GTMC) products and processes.A day in the life
• Interview a candidate for a new role on the team
• Present a strategy document to your stakeholders to drive alignment on team roadmap
• Attend a team-level operations review meeting to understand system health
• Review a design document produced by engineers on the team and provide feedback to ensure alignment with overall product strategy and stakeholder needs
• Hold 1:1s with members of the team to provide them with feedback, support, and context
• Meet with a customer to understand a problem they need your team to solve
• Escalate an issue to remove a blocker for the team

- 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

- 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