Software Development Manager, Business Data Technologies

Software Development Manager, Business Data Technologies

Business Data Technologies (BDT) seeks a Software Development Manager to lead initiatives in data privacy and comprehension while advancing the organization's mission of accelerating data-driven innovation and business insights.

The role involves managing a team focused on building innovative systems capable of Classification, protecting, and enriching SDO data at scale for AI and data analytics use cases while raising the bar on global customer trust.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead and develop engineering teams while providing mentorship and leadership on complex technology issues
2. Own the full technology lifecycle including development, operations, and systems depreciation
3. Drive both technology vision and business vision for the team
4. Guide software and database engineers in determining appropriate strategies

Required Qualifications:

1. 5+ years of software development experience and 3+ years of people management experience
2. Strong technical background with proven ability to execute both strategically and tactically
3. Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams and exceptional problem-solving skills
4. Customer-focused mindset with ability to lead teams handling complex software problems at the architectural level

The role aligns with BDT's core tenets of protecting data privacy, security, and compliance as the first priority, while maintaining data quality and timeliness of insights.

The successful candidate will contribute to BDT's vision of providing trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Amazon's growing analytics needs.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for:
Building, maintaining, and organizing your team
Defining your technical strategy and product roadmap
Defining, measuring, and reporting on your key performance and operational excellence metrics
Recruiting and retaining top talent
Driving clarity in highly ambiguous technical environments
Developing long-term technical roadmaps
Guiding and coaching developers
Managing projects effectively
Communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
Motivating your team to achieve results in a fast-paced environment

A day in the life
A day in the life of this role would be a good mix of managing multiple programs, focus on long term, managing operational health of systems and making high impact decisions.

About the team
This is a team with a vision to enable BDTs AI-powered experience where every Amazon employee can have natural, insightful conversations with their data - from discovery to insights to actions - by implementing data classification at scale - accelerating Amazon's data-driven culture.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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