Amazon is looking for a world-class engineering leader who can both own
one of EU’s top business initiatives and support the technical growth
and best practices of Amazon International Technology’s Madrid presence.
As a leader of multiple single-threaded leaders of EU technical
business initiatives, you will co-own strategy, design and execution
with your EU-based business partners. You will support building and
managing your teams from both the product and engineering perspectives.
With your teams, you will help build and drive roadmaps with business
partners from around the world. Your teams own engineering strategy and
you will lead your engineers to design and architect the right
solutions. Together you define and launch high-quality product on time
and within budget. You will help break down large, complex and ambiguous
problems, and solve them using data-driven decisions. You will find and
strike the best balance between innovation, operational excellence, and
leverage of Amazon technology, in order to build solutions that are
robust, secure, scalable and compelling for customers.
This
leader will also play a major role on the VP of International
Technology’s (In Tech) Leadership Team as the Site Manager for In Tech’s
Madrid presence, an engineering team spanning multiple teams and
engineers. In this capacity, you will be responsible for advising and
supporting the technical growth and best practices of the teams on the
ground and working with In Tech Leadership to drive the development of a
world-class engineering organization.
The successful candidate
will have a proven track record building and running highly scalable
technical products, strong leadership and technical skills, excellent
project management abilities, great communication skills, and a drive to
achieve results in a fast paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business leadership to understand business requirements, influence product vision and deliver strategic solutions
- Drive
high standards through your recruitment and professional development of
your technical teams, aligning closely with Amazon's larger technology
organization
- Think big and build big for the long term, while
maintaining nimbleness to experiment and deliver small and valuable new
features for customers
- Develop quality engineering approaches that best fit business’s strategic direction
- Define, drive and oversee a broad range of service integrations, systems improvements and customer-facing features
- Build innovative solutions which leverage Amazon's technology platforms, tools, and processes
- Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments
- Operate at all levels of the technology stack, including front-end user experience, mobile applications, and back-end services
- Provide visibility on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to leadership team