Senior Software Dev Engineer , AWS Transform

AWS Transform Mainframe is part of the Agentic AI organization. Our team owns services and products that help customers modernize their legacy applications helping AWS customers move their business-critical workloads from obsolete and old technologies to AWS. Our solutions are made of different products covering different needs: AWS Transform mainframe for refactor (for source code analysis tests capture projects follow-up etc.) Velocity (for source code transformation) CompareTool (for functional equivalence testing) DataMigrator (for data and schema conversion) AWS Transform Reimagine (for assessment and business driven modernization) and many more.

AWS Transform Mainframe works closely with AWS Professional Service teams as well as external customers and partners who run modernization projects. The AWS Transform Mainframe services have a key role in the cloud adoption of AWS biggest customers.

A Software Development Engineer (SDE III) in AWS Transform Mainframe has a leading role in defining technology strategy and building highly innovative secure and scalable solutions. They play a pivotal role in shaping the vision design roadmap and development of product features from beginning to end. An SDE III in AWS Transform Mainframe is a technical leader on their team. Their work focuses on complex ambiguous problems in existing or new software initiatives. They adapt roadmap priorities based on customer needs rapidly. They work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance. They drive engineering best practices (e.g. Operational Excellence Security Quality etc.) and set standards.

An SDE III in AWS Transform Mainframe makes appropriate architectural trade-offs. They solve complex software problems while removing bottlenecks and making things simpler. Their code submissions and approach to work are exemplary their solutions are inventive secure easily maintainable appropriately scalable and extensible. They write software that is easy for others to contribute to or use. An SDE III in AWS Transform Mainframe works to resolve the root cause of endemic problems including areas where their team limits the innovation of other teams (bottlenecks).

An SDE III in AWS Transform Mainframe designs and implements solutions end to end from customer experience and interfaces to infrastructure and monitoring. They leverage Generative AI to create innovative solutions for customers finding efficiencies that expedite delivery and increase quality. They are constantly learning and exploring new technologies that simplify customers experience or service operations. An SDE III in AWS Transform Mainframe drives mindful discussions with customers and peers from multiple teams and time zones. This may require to influence software decisions made by other teams.

An SDE III in AWS Transform Mainframe understands the business impact of all solutions and shows good judgment when making technical trade-offs between the teams short-term business or operational needs and long-term technology needs. They work backward from both the customers (who contracted the modernization) needs and the users/partners (who execute the modernization) needs.

They actively recruit and help others use their experience by coaching and mentoring in the organization. They contribute to the professional development of colleagues improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices. They share knowledge with other SDEs and make themselves available to other developers. They perform promo assessments and take part in performance discussions.

An SDE III in AWS Transform Mainframe is a technical focal point of the entire team especially in a strong scaling phase with high market demand on Refactoring projects.

AWS Transform Mainframe is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
- Design estimate develop test and maintain medium-to-large software components working in rapid changing environments and technologies that require intensive cross-team collaboration and autonomy.
- Apply team development and release mechanisms following security and compliance requirements when designing and implementing a customer delivery challenging and making trade-offs on quality standards and committed deadlines.
- Troubleshoot and solve difficult technical problems and delivering solutions that are logical frugal testable maintainable and efficient. Excel on operational activities ensuring service stability performance and permanent root cause resolution. Provide forensic analysis on large-scale and customer impacting issues
- Perform technical assessments participate in code reviews and ensure solutions meet high standards of code quality scalability and operational excellence.
- Automate team development testing and operations processes. Propose initiatives that increase team efficiency by leveraging internal products new technologies and GenAI capabilities.
- Mentor team members assist with peers projects and help train teammates on-boarding on product features on how the teams software is constructed how it operates and how to deliver with the required quality bar.
- Communicate clearly and timely with stakeholders peers and management on design trade-offs progress and blockers handling tasks autonomously and escalating to remove blockers when needed.

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- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering analytics mathematics statistics IT or equivalent
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java Python C or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in professional non-internship software development
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

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