Amazon Software Development Manager Forward Looking Inventory Planning 

United States, New York, New York 

706196511

Key job responsibilities
* Directly manage a group of software development engineer, hiring, promotion, performance assessments etc.
* Work closely with engineers to build large-scale, highly distributed systems solving complex problems for the Amazon supply chain business. Review both design specs and code and provide feedback to engineers to insist on highest standards in terms of system design and code quality.
* Partner with Product, Business and Peer Managers to identify new features that can bring substantial benefits for customers. Prioritize feature requests to maximize contributions to our goals while maintaining the right trade-off between addressing tactical needs versus investing in strategic solutions.
* Translate business requirements into engineering requirements to scope resource needs and manage multiple projects and dependencies effectively to deliver projects on schedule. Lead sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives to assign work, monitor progress, and collect feedback.
* Drive operations excellence by analyzing ticket root causes, defects, and technical debt and creating projects to reduce both short-term and long-term operational load.

- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- 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 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
- Master's Degree in Computer Science and/or Business Administration
- Familiarity with supply chain fundamentals
- Experience developing systems using AWS Technologies such as DynamoDB, SQS and Sagemaker