Senior Manager Global Financial Systems Amazon Seattle

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In this role you will be responsible for leading a team of functional analysts, engineers, and technical program managers to create world-class finance systems that support Amazon's global footprint. You must be willing to insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. The systems we own are responsible for trillions of financial events and payment flows that would rank among the largest countries in the world by GDP.

You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that software is designed to be highly-available, dynamically scalable, and resilient to continuity threats. You will own the goals and roadmap of the your team, along with the strategic direction of your software and shape of your organization. You will demonstrate strong leadership as you control your own destiny in Amazon's ownership oriented culture.

Our team operates ERP and custom software platforms that are among the largest in the world by volume and complexity, and a successful candidate will be able to dive deep into either realm to guide technical and functional decisions with their team. As a leader, you will drive architectural and design choices, invent new features, develop distributed services, and build a scalable, service-oriented platform for our people . We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect developers and management alike to take a high level of ownership for the product vision, technical architecture and project delivery. Successful candidates will be high-bandwidth leaders who can cut through the noise, simplify relentlessly, deliver results, and build great teams around themselves.
Basic Qualifications

10+ years of technical management experience
Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems
Preferred Qualifications

Deep understanding of engineering best practices
Deep understanding of agile project management methodologies
Experience writing custom production code
Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented design
Working knowledge of design patterns
Experience managing managers
Experience with global technology implementation efforts and rollouts
Experience working with ERP platforms and integration at scale
Experience in the Finance, Accounting or Tax domains.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

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