Amazon Quality Assurance Engineer - Applications Manager DC Design Engineering 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

758432098

The purpose of this role is to oversee and perform quality assurance and quality control process mapping for the review, tracking, and management of design drawings, specifications and documents prepared during the engineering design process in order to ensure regulatory, legal, and security compliance. You will work alongside internal partner teams such as Engineering, Power and Cooling (PAC), Security, Controls, and Commissioning to build Data Centers that directly support our customers to resolve quality and process issues. You will also communicate with external stakeholder design consultants.The Applications Manager, need to have a positive attitude, knowledge of the commercial industry design and construction process, experience reviewing technical and contractual documentation, and strong communication skills. You will have experience creating solutions with Workapps, workflows, dashboards and reports and experience using BI tools (such as PowerBI, AWS QuickSight, Tableau, etc.) and have foundational understanding working with large structured and unstructured datasets. You will have experience developing solutions for Project Management Information Systems (PMIS) such as Procore, BIM360, or E-builder and experience with building solutions with Smartsheet, Microsoft PowerApps or Microsoft Sharepoint for large scale Architecture, Engineering, and/or Construction organizations .The Applications Manager manages the intake of design consultant documentation and data, review documentation for quality compliance and completeness, and update stakeholders with progress of the final workflow documentation processing. The applications manager will propose and develop new solutions to increase design efficiency and automate where possible.The Applications Manager should expect high volumes for documentation, and will need to exercise strong judgement on how to communicate and engage stakeholders through various tools.Effective May 15, 2017, logical access to the AWS GovCloud region will be restricted to Amazon employees who are U.S. Citizens. (GovCloud may NOT be accessed from outside of the United States)". This role will directly support GovCloud information and requires U.S. citizenship.You’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 completion.Key job responsibilities
* Independently manage one or multiple project clusters’ documentation and administers the workflows where you engage with the correct stakeholders across the organization to raise the bar in the quality and the coherence of the content of the package provided. Perform quality review of technical documentation for accuracy and contract compliance.
* Serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for other Quality Engineers process clarifications needs and decision making as required.
* Provide coordination and guidance of all engineering and architectural specifications, design drawings, and permit submittals for projects.
* Support the design managers to prepare complete and accurate documentation at various design phases and during construction hand-off, including but not limited to drawings, specifications, bill of materials, calculations, etc.
* Manages project archiving, tracking, processing and filing activities, assist in naming standard, versioning schema, etc.
* Acting as system administrator on project critical systems.
* Provides training initiatives for our internal and external partners, and provide tactical support.
* Prepare ad hoc reports on project’s progress, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and progress tracking.
* Manages and executes the vision and goals for the team. Independently works on process improvement initiative and new mechanism development in Smartsheet and sees these to completion including among others: requirements gatherings, technical system development, UAT, implementation, training, user support and data analysis.
* Collaborate with technical teams in a fast-paced environment with showed ability to edit and raise the bar on high-quality technical documentation
* Develops, creates and maintains systems using Smartsheet for reporting and tracking open issues.
* Responsible for leading and driving process improvements (short-term wins) as well as process design / redesign (long-term wins) efforts
* Manage a portfolio of projects in an assigned region
* Manage the business metrics reporting process and support ad hoc reporting requests
* Own design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, and support ad hoc reporting requests
* Maintain confidentiality around sensitive documentation
* Attend team meetings and communicate updates or requirements
* Conduct audits to ensure processes are being followed
* Analyzing, mining, and modeling data for Data Center Design Engineering documents and files.
* Up to 25% travel may be requiredAbout the team
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Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or architecture, or 4+ years’ experience as a project engineer for large commercial design and construction projects4+years of experience in the design or construction industry2+ year of experience writing complex SQL queries and Python scripts.Experience setting up and administering Smartsheet functional areas like control center, workspaces, Workapps, sheets, reports, dashboards, etc.

Experience in Salesforce, BIM, Procore, SharePoint is a plus. Experience with design and/or construction management software including Autodesk BIM360, Bluebeam, and ProcoreKnowledge of the scope and design/construction life cycle sequencing of project schedules. Organizational, analytical, and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specificationsRelevant workflow and drawing tools, such as Viso, Miro, and SmartSheet. Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines.Experience with data visualization using Quicksight, Tableau, PowerBI or similar tools and using API and SDKs to build script and and automation tools.Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions.