Software Development Manager , Builder Foundations

Were seeking a Software Development Manager to lead engineering team within Amazons Center of Excellence for Orchestration (ORCA). This role will oversee both our current business intelligence orchestration platform. The position requires managing team responsible for mission-critical workflow operations serving Amazons diverse businesses from Retail to Digital Services.

The successful candidate will drive technical excellence in maintaining and enhancing our existing multi-tenant orchestration platform that powers thousands of business workflows. Youll lead multiple engineering teams establish technical roadmaps and ensure operational excellence across both traditional and emerging platform capabilities. Your teams will be responsible for developing robust scalable solutions that maintain high availability while incorporating innovative autonomous operations features.

This role demands strong technical leadership experience in distributed systems workflow orchestration and enterprise-scale platforms. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record of managing large engineering teams exceptional system design skills and experience with both traditional orchestration systems. Youll collaborate closely with product management architecture teams and business stakeholders while maintaining a strong focus on engineering excellence and operational reliability.



Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
-Hire mentor and lead software development teams including leaders.
-Lead design implementation and deployment of successful highly distributed large scale services.
-Play a critical role in the broad business planning working closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements. Help form long-term technical and business strategy and goals.
-Understand business context to decisions made within and across groups.
-Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach. Be a hands-on technical leader and contributor.
-Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.
-Work with globally distributed team.

- 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
- Bachelors degree

- 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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