Software Development Manager, Benefits Experience & Technology (BXT)

Our mission is to make it easy for employees and their family to discover and use the benefits that apply to them. Todays traditional benefit experiences rely heavily on content explanations and instructions for people to understand whats available to them and how to use it. We are bringing personalized and friction-free benefits to the tip of the fingers of over five million people (our employees and their dependents). Amazon Benefits help them live richer and fuller lives be it by helping them in a moment of medical need saving for retirement or helping them with a vacation. We are building a delightful mobile and web experience integrated with internal and external systems so employees dont have to go through hoops to get what they want. No employer has ever done this level of experience or personalization before and we are breaking new ground.

As a leader on this team you will influence and drive architectural and design choices and develop world-class interfaces. Our team culture encourages innovation and we expect engineers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision technical architecture and project delivery. We need a leader who can cut through the noise passionately simplify deliver results and manage a diverse team.

Key job responsibilities
Lead the architectural design and development of critical platform features ensuring solutions are highly scalable maintainable and align with AWS best practices
Drive technical excellence through mentorship of junior engineers and establishment of coding standards design patterns and engineering best practices
Architect and implement AI powered solutions leveraging AWS services to enable predictive support capabilities and automated workflow orchestration
Design and build robust integration patterns between multiple HR systems while ensuring data security and compliance
Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions
Lead cross-team technical initiatives and drive consensus on architectural decisions
Champion operational excellence through monitoring alerting and continuous improvement of system reliability
Partner with SDE-IIIs and Principal Engineers in the organization to drive execution of our 3-year architecture plans (3YAP) for the technology as well as drive tradeoff decisions balancing long term vision with delivering immediate impact to our customers.
Mentor for SDE-Is in the team coaching your peers on engineering excellence and leadership principles and partner with SDMs and PMs to deliver team level goals.
Get an opportunity to be mentored by other Sr. engineers in the team and learn from Principal Engineers while working on the goals.

- 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 in engineering team management
- Experience in engineering
- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
- Experience partnering with product and 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Arlington - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually