Amazon Jobs – Senior Manager

About the job

Job Summary

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As a software development leader do you want to make a real difference to real people’s lives? Want to lead teams to design and build fair systems which automate recruitment processes across Amazon? Do you enjoy leading teams of engineers and machine learning scientists working on innovative, high-scale, complex, international solutions? Do you enjoy end-to-end responsibility, working on business ideas as well as technology, software engineering and operations?

An amazing opportunity has arisen for a Senior Software Development Manager to join Amazon’s worldwide Recruiting Engine team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Come be part of a team that develops new engineering and machine learning (ML) technologies, which help Amazon scale for customers by recruiting diverse teams. The Recruiting Engine team is reinventing how we recruit at Amazon.

You will lead engineering and science teams at our Development Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. You will be responsible for everything from business ideas through to technology, software engineering and operations. You and your team will be accountable for running the systems you build, continually inventing new features and improving your performance against business and operational metrics.

Successful candidates will have a background in software development, most likely with a Computer Science degree. You will be detail-driven, numerate and have excellent problem solving abilities. You should be a confident people manager with a track record of growing high performance teams.

You will have a system-wide, architectural view of the solutions that your team build. You will be involved in every aspect of the process – from idea generation, business analysis, research and technical design through to software development management using the latest technologies and design patterns. The systems you contribute to will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24×7.

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for senior software development leaders who can delight customers by continually learning and inventing. Our ideal candidate has a track-record of performing analysis and applying statistical techniques to solve real business problems, who has great leadership and communication skills, and who is motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. The position offers an exceptional opportunity to grow your technical and non-technical skills and make a real difference to Amazonians worldwide.

If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to people’s lives in our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class systems, delivering results, working on exciting and challenging projects.

You Must Be Able To

• Build and develop
• Be a credible Agile/Scrum/Lean/Kanban engineering leader for a team of high-performing software engineers and scientists.
• Partner with colleagues across the company (and across the world) to define and deliver complex features.
• Lead the delivery of large, complex projects.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, escalate as needed, balance business needs versus technical constraints.
• Write effectively, sharing relevant project updates, plans and metrics with stakeholders.

A day in the life

Come join a team full of talented people, who come from all over the world. Enjoy the chance to work in a relaxed setting with a good social life. The team based in Edinburgh, Scotland is rapidly expanding.

About The Team

The Recruiting Engine team is reinventing how we recruit at Amazon.

Recruiting the right candidates across all of Amazon is critical to our ability to innovate and build on behalf of customers. As the search for talent becomes more competitive, we are bringing together recruiting, science, tech, programs, and process teams to find and hire bar-raising talent, faster than ever before.

Recruiting Engine’s (RE) Candidate Matching, Assessment and eXperience (CMAX) team was formed to focus on three areas: Improving the Candidate Experience, Help Candidates Explore Jobs, and Assessing Candidates. This role will own all candidate journey products that support a delightful experience for jobseekers, helping Amazon drive quality of hire and meet customer demand.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers
• Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
• Relevant engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant experience in managing engineering development including managing software managers and organizations.
• Prior experience of software development and a solid grounding in Computer Science, including algorithms, data structures, operating systems, programming languages and distributed systems. – Experience with modern software development practices including automated testing, refactoring, continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Experience leading the delivery of large, cross-team projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience analyzing business and operational metrics.
• Experience leading the development of machine learning systems.
• Advanced quantitative analytical abilities.
• Experience delivering complex projects in partnership with remote colleagues.
• Experience as a business leader.
• Computer Science Honours degree (2:1 or better) or have undertaken postgraduate study (applicants with a degree in a related discipline who have demonstrated a strong grounding in Computer Science and experience in Software Engineering will also be considered).

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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Company – Amazon Dev Centre(Scotland)Ltd

Job ID: A2011417