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Job summary
Does designing and delivering highly performant, highly available and scalable applications motivate you? If you want to learn AWS technologies and use them to drive cash flow for one of the largest companies in the world, this role is for you.

Amazon Finance Automation is seeking an experienced Engineering Leader who will lead the technical design, development and production operations of a global financial system that serves Amazon Finance worldwide. Your leadership will operate and evolve a set of services that are at the core of financial transactions between customers and vendors and Amazon business units like AWS. A strong candidate will have experience with designing, building and operating secure, distributed systems that operate globally.

This is a great opportunity to grow yourself to the next level by learning to scale a key in-production system through AWS. You be responsible for the architecture, redesign, upgrades and Java based micro-services that will provide availability and latency guarantees. Finally, you will lead a team of expert engineers, and will raise the engineering bar by hiring, growing and mentoring engineers.

Key job responsibilities

Lead engineering deliverables aimed at improving the Pega BPM system user experience.
Engage stakeholders, prioritize delivery, and drive customer goals through engineering delivery.
Lead scaling initiatives through system redesign and developing micro-services.
Leverage AWS to create and improve system availability and latency.
Improve production system operations by creating and driving operational excellence initiatives.
Hire, mentor and grow engineers.

About the team
At Amazon Finance Automation, we are passionate about building systems and services that deliver a seamless and transparent finance experience for Amazon partners. We are responsible for building the systems that automate and orchestrate the services, analytics, and financial transactions that supports Amazon customers and vendors worldwide. Our talented teams span across the globe and depend on our systems to perform their work, and serve customers efficiently, effectively, and securely. We build, operate, and scale systems that are responsible for billions of dollars in transactions, and are central to the success of worldwide finance.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years Pega BPM systems management experience.
5+ years experience managing in-production system operations.
3+ years programming experience with related technologies such as Java, JSON, JavaScript etc.
3+ years experience in application integration using SOA/web services.
3+ years experience in SQL and PL/SQL integrating with relational databases
Experience building and maintaining programmatic access and integrations of Pega with non Pega technologies.

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