Director, Middle Mile Technology Amazon Minneapolis

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As part of the leadership team, you will lead technology product development for an exciting and confidential initiative in middle mile transportation organization. You will regularly interact with executive leadership and work with business teams to define product strategy, develop the product development roadmap, technology architecture and execution. As a leader of leaders, you’ll need to build, manage, and mentor multiple engineering teams towards achieving a focused mission.

You’ll work in a fast paced environment and will be required to lead not only at the strategic level, but also tactically day-to-day by diving deeply into business and technical domains. As a multi-discipline leader, the buck will stop with you. You’ll be required to not just lead the engineering (development and testing) functions but also lead the product/program management aspects as the complete owner of the product.

To accomplish this, you will be expected to have an established background in building highly scalable systems and system design, experience with technology product development, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals. Experience with building and operating mobile applications, web-based applications and/or web services-based applications, especially at massive scale, will be very applicable and helpful. Prior experience in leading multiple disciplines (Software Development, Architecture, Testing and Operating Technology Platforms) will be a big plus as well.

Come and see for yourself why we are one of the most admired company in the US, rated #1 in Innovation and # 1 in Customer Service, and be part of our tradition of working hard, having fun and making history! At Amazon, we hire hands-on managers at all levels. The leader must be able to dive deep into the details on business, operations and engineering. We need technical, detail-oriented leaders who can build and grow organizations. We’re also looking for someone who shares our belief that through a combination of smart engineering and scale we can achieve highly reliable systems. This requires a thorough knowledge of what it takes to develop scalable, extensible technology, as well as how to structure and develop a rapidly growing organization. It presents a significant intellectual, technical, operational and organizational challenge. We are not tied to one technology – instead, we use what is best suited for the purpose. All of our systems tend to be loosely coupled, communicating using synchronous and asynchronous messaging, leading to a classic distributed processing architecture. You will be leading talented engineering managers and luminary engineers who enjoy working on creative solutions, building large scale systems and who thrive in a fast paced fun environment.

Our services are part of one of the World’s largest production systems. This requires all candidates to balance sustaining and stability issues for a 24x7 environment with new development. You have to love building and inventing on behalf of customers.
Reporting directly to the Director of the Middle Mile Technology Product Organization, the role is based in Seattle (also hiring in Minneapolis and Hyderabad)
Basic Qualifications


Bachelor's degree and/or Master's degree in Computer Science
12+ years of industry experience of increasing responsibility running engineering teams
Strong knowledge of systems architecture, loosely coupled and distributed systems for massive scale
Prior leadership experience managing a number of development teams concurrently as well as multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
Multidisciplinary experience overseeing software development, program/project management and QA
Experience with solving and operating business solutions requiring high availability, high scaling, low latency
Proficiency in system-level design, and experience with web services and service oriented architectures; Candidates must think at scale
Preferred Qualifications

Superior communication and analytical skills, including strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems.
Candidates must be creative, flexible and self-motivated.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through influence versus direct management; excellent interpersonal skills.
PhD in Computer Science
Experience architecting and operating large scale systems

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