Vacancies at Amazon Web Services

As the Senior Manager of Software Development for new analytics services, you will have the opportunity to lead the team that delivers microservices and new features to power AWS’ next generation of database and analytics technology. You will own end to end microservice design and deployment. In this role you will lead the teams to innovate and solve problems of high ambiguity and high impact. You will drive design choices, trade-offs, priorities and timelines. You will demonstrate exceptional management skills and technical expertise, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. You are data and metric driven, and obsessively concerned about performance. You will mentor and inspire other managers and engineers, participate in defining our engineering culture, and help to build a fast-growing and highly self-motivated team. You will draw from your deep and broad technical and management expertise to mentor senior engineers and managers, complete hands-on technical work and provide leadership on complex technical issues, design tradeoffs, and feature and schedule prioritization. And as an engineering leader you will work with senior AWS executives to develop business targets and resource requirements, influence our technical and business strategy, help hire talented engineers and managers, and conceive innovative new solutions for our customers.

Joining the Amazon Analytics engineering team gives you the opportunity to:

Key job responsibilities

• Work on a new, disruptive product that’s still in its early stages
• Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize analytics and data management in the cloud
• Build a product that will leverage the scale of resources available in the cloud
• Help enable the digital transformation of our 1,000’s of customer’s businesses, which is at the forefront of leading CEO’s minds

This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor with AWS and work in an exciting startup environment. Come, join us in reinventing analytics for the cloud!

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience.
• 5+ years’ experience in a technical leadership role.
• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, high-quality systems.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: e-commerce platforms, large scale systems engineering, building complex distributed systems, building monitoring or management tools for large-scale environments. OO Modeling, working on internet, UNIX, and database related projects.
• Experience managing complex projects, with significant bottom-line impact.
• Experience leading development lifecycle processes and best practices.
• Experience with Agile Management (SCRUM, RUP, XP)
• Experience mentoring/training an engineering community on complex technical issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• A leadership position in a team delivering solutions at scale
• Experience in leading teams develop core database functionality including compilers, query optimizers, distributed systems, transaction managers, and data storage architectures
• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering with a minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience

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DESCRIPTION

Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing adoption of Amazon Web Services by engaging with key accounts? Do you have the business savvy and the technical background necessary to help establish Amazon Web Services as a key technology platform provider?

As an Enterprise Account Manager you will have the exciting opportunity to help promote the growth and shape the future of an emerging technology. Your responsibility will be to increase the market penetration of AWS in key customer accounts in South Africa.

The ideal candidate will possess both a business and technical background that enables them to engage an account at the CXO level as well as with software developers and IT architects. He/she should also be a self-starter who is prepared to develop and execute against a territory coverage plan.

Basic Qualifications

• Significant account management business development experience in the IT industry.
• A technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus.
• Direct field experience in working with large customer accounts.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Fluent in English, and ideally one other African language

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS degree preferred
• Sucessful experience in managing transformation for large accounts
• Account leadership for complex accounts and quota achievements This role will be based in Johannesburg Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and broader based Black Economic Empowerment and the further diversification of ideas. The relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity and Black Economic Empowerment will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.