DESCRIPTION

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, pixel-perfect reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, business analysts and business users can use natural language to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds, turning insights into impact faster.

Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, pixel-perfect reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, business analysts and business users can use natural language to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds, turning insights into impact faster.

We are seeking a visionary Software Development Manager to build and lead a team of exceptional full stack and frontend engineers. In this role you will own QuickSight’s website infrastructure and innovate the architecture while keeping it extremely performant, scalable and agile for hundreds of developers contributing code. The ideal candidate will bring over a decade of hands-on production software development experience, coupled with outstanding technical leadership and people management skills.

This individual should:
– Foster a diverse and inclusive team environment, valuing varied perspectives and backgrounds
– Tackle complex, large-scale challenges with enthusiasm and innovation
– Drive the evolution, shaping the next generation of business intelligence solutions
– Effectively manage high-performing developers while making strategic, long-term architectural decisions
– Successfully spearhead R&D initiatives from conception to completion
– Collaborate seamlessly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
– Continuously improve, iterate, and reimagine our product experience
– Hire and develop the best talent to execute on their vision.

The right individual will combine deep technical expertise and high judgment with strong people management capabilities to guide our software development efforts in one of the fastest-growing areas of the technology. As a technology leader, you will drive architectural and design choices and invent new features. We have a team culture that encourages innovation where developers and management alike take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery. Successful candidates will be a high-bandwidth leader who can cut through the noise, simplify relentlessly, deliver results, and build great teams. The opportunity to make an impact in this role is only limited by the personal capacity of the candidate. If this sounds like you, please contact us today, and let’s talk about how you can be a part of it.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 5+ years of engineering team management experience
– 10+ years of engineering experience
– Experience building web applications with React and modern web technologies
– 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

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
– Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent