Software Dev Manager III, Direct Tax Technology

Why Direct Tax Technology Amazon has it all: AWS; Large volumes of data; Complex businesses and transactions; and a massive geographic footprint. Tax must deal with these challenges and the complexity of rules across thousands of jurisdictions. Direct Tax Technology provides an opportunity to innovate design and build new platforms and services on AWS.

Amazons seeks an innovative capable and motivated individual to be a Software Development Manager (SDM) on the Direct Tax Technology team. The role is responsible for ensuring the tax professionals of Amazons Global Tax Reporting and Compliance organization (R&C) are supported in their mission with world-class technology and processes built on AWS. The impact of this role is evidenced by the ability to innovate robust and scalable capabilities that empower our customers and the organization to continue to meet the unique challenges of Amazon.

As a Software Development Manager you will lead and develop a team of world-class software engineers. You and your team will drive product/platform development and partner with other Amazon teams and businesses to deliver AWS based systems and services. Amazon SDMs possess the ability to deliver results think big make sound decisions and build highly-scalable/performant systems for the long term. This role is expected to lead by example to earn the trust of your team and customers.



Key job responsibilities
- Manage tax technology challenges with scalable solutions delivered in a quick-and-nimble fashion.
- Manage and lead efforts that can involve multiple teams and deliver solutions with impact across the R&C organization.
- Be a trusted advisor to R&C customers and engage on projects with high degrees of complexity and business criticality.
- Manage requirements design build and rollout solutions.
- Lead initiatives with multiple stakeholders and manage the complexity of competing needs and timelines.
- Support customers through reporting and compliance cycles mentoring troubleshooting and running processes as needed.
- Understand the solutions we have today applying them where appropriate and inventing new capabilities when needed.
- Own multiple processes and/or parts of our technology toolset providing subject matter expertise and mentorship.
- Listen to customers across the organization and expand our toolset to the benefit of all avoiding point solutions.


- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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 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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