Financial Ledger & Accounting Systems Hub (FLASH), a division within Amazon’s eCommerce Foundation (eCF) is leading significant innovations in business systems integration and defining the future of accounting. Our systems are advancing one of the world's most scalable, reliable, and secure e-commerce platforms that process hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions, in multiple currencies and countries. We are at the center of Amazon’s key initiatives and fueling the growth of Amazon’s businesses worldwide by continually raising the bar on the speed at which business teams can integrate with our platform. This position is located in the beautiful city of Vancouver.
As a Manager of Managers here, you will lead your teams of high performing engineers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize systems within FLASH. You will interface with several teams including Retail Systems, Marketplace Systems, Digital Systems, Web services, Financial systems, and operations. Our mission is to provide a world-class customer experience using scalable and robust software, so the challenges and opportunities span both the business and technical realms.
A successful candidate will be a manager of managers with an established background in developing high volume and highly available services, strong technical ability, excellent communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Key responsibilities include:
As a leader of leaders, lead an organization or teams that consists of SDMs, TPMs, and software development engineers.
Manage and develop the team, including hiring, retention, performance management, mentoring and capability/skill development.
Lead architecture, design, implementation, and operational support of tools and services.
Evaluate complex business and technical requirements, and communicate inherent risks and solutions to technical and non-technical business owners.