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Sr. Manager, Software Development, SIERRA
Amazon
Software Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Mar 4, 2025
DESCRIPTION
SIERRA (Science, Insights, Experience, Research, Reporting & Analytics) has an opportunity for a Senior Manager, Software Development to join the organization. This role will lead a global engineering team with managers and engineers across multiple locales. We’re looking for a senior technical leader who’s motivated by building software that supports other leaders at Amazon. This leader is responsible for hiring, developing, and retaining the best talent – creating durable organizations that celebrate diverse points of view and experiences. You need to operate at both strategic and tactical levels – create and drive a vision across multiple software development teams, lead managers, while still being able to dive deep.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will:
- Drive strategic planning and project execution, recruit, hire, and develop a highly qualified team of software engineers.
- Possess strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Enable your teams to independently innovate and deliver results, while verifying completion/quality.
- Own the inputs and the business outcome through cultivating a culture of relentless auditing and metric monitoring, automatically where possible.
- Balance technical leadership, investment and strong business judgement to make the right decisions about technology choices.
- Collaborate with product and business teams to define and execute the technical roadmap
- Influence senior leaders and partner with teams across Amazon
About the team
This role is within the SIERRA (Science, Insights, Experience, Research, Reporting & Analytics) team. SIERRA is an organization within GTMC that is a horizontal, multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to be a force multiplier for the broader GTMC organization and our key customer cohorts. We accomplish this by using our expertise in data analytics and science, economics, machine learning (ML), UX, I/O psychology, and engineering to build insights and experiences that raise the bar in understanding and shaping decision making at scale by integrating within and across talent journeys as well as through self-service tools and closed loop mechanisms outside of those journeys. Our portfolio of products spans foundational data sources, metrics, and research through to finished features and products that our end-customers interact with on a daily basis.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $198,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $342,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.