Software Development Manager, Benefits Experience & Technology (BXT)

Amazon.com Inc

Arlington, VA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Best Practices, Coding Standards, Compensation and Benefits, Continuous Improvement, Design Patterns Programming Methodologies, HRIS/HRMS, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Mentoring, Requirements Management, Software Development, Systems Reliability, Team Lead/Manager
LOCATION
Arlington, VA
POSTED
10 days ago

Our mission is to make it easy for employees and their family to discover and use the benefits that apply to them. Today's traditional benefit experiences rely heavily on content, explanations, and instructions for people to understand what's available to them and how to use it. We are bringing personalized and friction-free benefits to the tip of the fingers of over five million people (our employees and their dependents). Amazon Benefits help them live richer and fuller lives, be it by helping them in a moment of medical need, saving for retirement, or helping them with a vacation. We are building a delightful mobile and web experience integrated with internal and external systems, so employees don't have to go through hoops to get what they want. No employer has ever done this level of experience or personalization before and we are breaking new ground.

As a leader on this team, you will influence and drive architectural and design choices and develop world-class interfaces. Our team culture encourages innovation and we expect engineers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery. We need a leader who can cut through the noise, passionately simplify, deliver results, and manage a diverse team.

Key job responsibilities

  • Lead the architectural design and development of critical platform features, ensuring solutions are highly scalable, maintainable, and align with AWS best practices
  • Drive technical excellence through mentorship of junior engineers and establishment of coding standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices
  • Architect and implement AI powered solutions leveraging AWS services to enable predictive support capabilities and automated workflow orchestration
  • Design and build robust integration patterns between multiple HR systems while ensuring data security and compliance
  • Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions
  • Lead cross-team technical initiatives and drive consensus on architectural decisions
  • Champion operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of system reliability
  • Partner with SDE-IIIs and Principal Engineers in the organization to drive execution of our 3-year architecture plans (3YAP) for the technology as well as drive tradeoff decisions balancing long term vision with delivering immediate impact to our customers.
  • Mentor for SDE-Is in the team, coaching your peers on engineering excellence and leadership principles and partner with SDMs and PMs to deliver team level goals.
  • Get an opportunity to be mentored by other Sr. engineers in the team and learn from Principal Engineers while working on the goals.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles