Software Development Manager, Open Data Analytics

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazon s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Amazon Web Services Open Data Analytics (ODA) organization is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to lead the Amazon EMR/Athena Fundamentals team.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning using open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Trino, Hadoop, Hive, and HBase. Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that simplifies analyzing data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.

The ODA Fundamentals team is responsible for integrating and packaging the latest features from the ODA organization and delivering robust, thoroughly tested analytics products to our customers. We design and build tools and web services that manage entire lifecycle of ODA releases from creation to deployment with high quality and on schedule. The team plays a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of ODA services and executing the product release process to meet business and customer needs.

Key job responsibilities
Hire, coach, and mentor individuals to build and lead an engineering team.
Lead the team to manage entire lifecycle of ODA releases, from creation to deployment, either by utilizing existing internal tools or by innovating and creating new ones.
Lead the team to improve the ODA release processes on efficiency, security, stability, and coverage in order to meet business and customer needs.
Build the teams technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to its priorities and approach.
Own all operational metrics and support.
Influence and drive operational excellence best practices within the ODA organization.
Partner with stakeholders across ODA organization to understand requirements and priorities and build consensus.

About the team
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- 7+ years of engineering 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 in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy