Development Manager..Amazon-Hyderabad

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The Merchant Technologies division is one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon. There are over 2.2 million merchants, ranging from students selling their text books to nation-wide retail chains, selling on Amazon’s international marketplaces. Collectively, these merchants are responsible for selling about 1/3rd of all items ordered from Amazon.com world-wide. The revenue and free cash flow generated by the M@ business are at the same proportions. This is an already-large business that is continuing to grow at a high rate year-over-year and we have several new initiatives that will further accelerate this trend. The technology platform is the cornerstone for our growth. The team is investing heavily in building a highly scalable global platform that can handle millions of transactions every month worth billions of dollars while maintaining buyer’s and seller’s trust on the platform. The team aspires to provide sellers with state-of-the-art tools for managing their inventory and orders and financial reporting.

Our Marketplace development team in Hyderabad, India focuses on building this platform. We are looking for a leader who is passionate about global development and building highly scalable and extensible platform. Specifically, the leader would be responsible for building a brand new registration platform that will be used to register 30+ different products and will be used to register millions of merchants worldwide. The leader will need to have strong focus on engineering excellence and performance metrics. The leader will be obsessed with developing high-performance teams through rigorous goal setting, disciplined attention to performance metrics, continuous process improvement, and mutual support and mentorship. He or she will also have very strong communication skills to bridge the gap between the Seattle and Hyderabad teams.

Key Responsibilities:

·         Leading highly talented technology teams responsible for building and owning complex services from India.

·         Delivery of highly available and highly reliable software.

·         Inculcate a culture of innovation and operational efficiency in the team.

·         Responsible for the direction of the new Registration platform.

·         Influence, collaborate and communicate effectively with various leaders in Amazon.

·         Hiring, growing and retaining a strong team keeping with the Amazon high bar.

Basic Qualifications:

·         A BS or MS degree in Computer Science is required with 9-12 years of experience managing distributed computing/server core software engineering teams.

·         Candidates must demonstrate proactive technical leadership, strong verbal and written communication skills, and a proven ability to multi-task and manage stress effectively in a fast-paced environment.

·         A record of hiring of strong technical team members and leaders.

Preferred Qualifications:

·         The ideal candidate is a business and tech-savvy, analytical manager with a verifiable track record of managing and delivering enterprise projects on time and within budget.

·         Candidate must have a strong customer focus and excellent expectation management abilities.

·         Candidates must demonstrate proactive technical leadership, strong verbal and written communication skills, and a proven ability to multi-task and manage stress effectively in a fast-paced environment.

·         A record of hiring of strong technical team members and leaders.

·         A BS or MS degree in Computer Science is required with 9-12 years of experience managing distributed computing/server core software engineering teams.

Sr.Development Manager..Amazon-Hyderabad

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world. Amazon’s vision is to offer the earth’s largest selection and lowest prices to our customers.

Over 2MM Sellers in 9 countries (and growing) list their products for sale on the Amazon.com Marketplace. Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. These Sellers offer hundreds of millions of unique SKUs providing a broad and diverse inventory of products from Books, Electronics, Apparel to Consumables and beyond. Our business currently represents more than 1/3 of Amazon units sold, and is growing all the time.

The Marketplace organization drives the Selling on Amazon business and develops solutions that enable millions of sellers around the world to sell to more than 150mm customers (and growing). These solutions include the software platform and applications that drive demand generation, customer acquisition, seller integration, customer relationship management, business analytics, and the inventory and order management functions necessary for sellers to manage their business online at Amazon.com.

Our team is made up of people like you. People who are: Entrepreneurial –We build solutions for all sellers, regardless of size. In fact, many of us are sellers ourselves. Innovative – Our problem space evolves every day due to scale, new categories and new geographies. There is no playbook for a Marketplace of this size, so innovation and creativity are a must. Passionate – We are passionate about our customers, both sellers and buyers. Everyone’s an owner at Amazon, and our team is no exception. Our business is growing fast and the pace is even faster. Leaders – We recognize the desire for people to lead, whether it is the development of a new feature or ownership of a new category. We invest in our team members, providing challenging roles with significant responsibility. Coaching and mentoring is taken seriously to ensure we continue to build a company we can be extremely proud of.

We are looking for a visionary technical leader to work on the Seller Services team to improve the Catalog Quality though automated machine learning methodologies. As this leader, you will combine your technical vision with business judgment in making decisions and guiding the teams. You will be the primary owner in building high-performance teams, driving innovation, technology roadmaps and delivery of customer-centric systems. You will be executing in a fast-paced environment, driving for results and continuous improvements in Seller experience.

Ideal Candidate:

• · Must be technically credible to lead teams of world-class software engineers and be able to make the right design decisions and technology choices
• · Deep understanding of overall systems development life cycle including various methodologies (agile, waterfall, iterative)
• · Experienced in developing the long-term strategy for technology platforms and that translate into an achievable roadmap
• · Experienced building and managing teams that designs and delivers scalable, extensible complex distributed systems.
• · Has managed remote development teams
• · Understands how to scope and justify resources and budget needs to senior leaders and finance partners
• · Knows how to effectively operate technology platforms which are highly reliable
• · Experience with open source technologies, object-oriented design, and agile development methodologies

Responsibilities:

• Build a Business and Ontology supported Operations team to train the machine learning system with relevant data
• Build and Manage high performing technical teams
• Fix the defects in catalog with machine learning techniques or by improving manual operations
• Use analytical influence over multiple departments, increasing their productivity and effectiveness to achieve strategic goals
• Work with Sellers, business managers, operations, software development, sales, account managers, legal and finance.
• Build and execute on new initiatives and roadmaps each year
• Work with the functional business leaders to build scalable processes and metrics
• Support network level excellence in six sigma and lean practices through designing and implementing systems, metrics, and programs that drive adoption and continuous improvement.
• Provide metrics inputs to various reporting decks; communicate key performance indicators to the Seller Services team in support of network objectives.
• Collaborate with counterparts in other functional areas in the company

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Math, Statistics or related discipline
• 10 + years Management experience in a retail, manufacturing, production or quality, distribution environment
• Ability to lead, teach and develop associates and managers to deliver key organizational goals.
• Cross-functional project management experience
• Process improvement experience via Six-Sigma and LEAN tools
• Experience using and communicating performance metrics
• Proven track record to creating and executing on highly effective quality processes
• Strong people management skills, with a proven ability to hire and grow talented personnel in multiple locations
• Is innovative, can simplify, and has relentlessly high standards
• Maintains composure in the face of highly ambiguous environments and constant change

Thanks & Regards,

Sajithkumar Swaminathan