Payroll Technology at Amazon is all about enabling our business to perform at scale as efficiently as possible with no defects. As Amazons workforce grows both in size and geography Amazons payroll operations become increasingly complex and our customers are asked to do more with less. Process can only get them so far and thats where we come in with technology solutions to integrate and automate systems detect defects before payment and provide insights.
In this role you will lead a team in building tools to improve the global payroll process and payroll data management across all countries where Amazon pays employees. While our current systems involve machine learning analytics business process management data management reconciliation and compliance we are looking for a visionary leader to come in and understand the current business processes and objectives and develop the next round of ideas to solve problems that we do not yet know that we have.
You will work with other Amazon business and engineering teams in planning designing building and supporting systems. Your primary responsibilities will include developing a team of engineers managing the teams devops processes defining and publishing the teams charter and vision managing priorities across groups of customers goalsetting and roadmap management.
Your team will architect highly efficient systems making a tradeoff between scalability performance and user functionality needs using expert knowledge in software development technologies. You will develop long term domain/technology strategies and significantly influence the process and engineering standards on the team. You will lead design reviews and offer feedback on design integration performance and scalability. You will serve as an authority in the area of technical and domain expertise and mentor develop and train the engineers.
The ideal candidate for this role will be technically strong and able to dive deep particularly with AWS and have prior experience managing customerfacing teams. They will also have experience in the HR/Payroll/Finance domains and will have excellent verbal and written communication appropriate to engage with all levels at Amazon. Lastly they will be a great leader who takes pride in and genuinely enjoys hiring developing mentoring motivating and retaining the best engineers.
3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of engineering experience
8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
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
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
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
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