The global product and engineering organization for AWS Support is known as Kumo, which is the Japanese word for "cloud". Kumo provides software and technology services that intelligently anticipate and resolve AWS customer needs, facilitating their adoption, optimization, and operation within the AWS cloud at scale. Kumo's products, utilized by AWS customers and the internal Amazonian Support teams, are essential in ensuring exceptional customer experiences on AWS. The organization aims to identify customer needs across all AWS services proactively and deliver the most appropriate resolutions, fulfilling the vision of a self-healing cloud over time. Kumo maintains a broad portfolio of both customer-facing and internal services, including AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Health, Automation, Recommendations & Insights, AWS Support Center, AWS Knowledge center, and many more.By joining AWS Kumo, you will work with all AWS customers, from big and diverse enterprises to small cutting-edge start-ups, helping them achieve success in their cloud journeys. The organization is a fast-growing, agile and collaborative group of individuals from diverse backgrounds located across the globe. The team is driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products and providing services that transform the way customers run their businesses. Kumo's industry-leading product portfolio cuts across a wide range of technologies (such as Machine Learning, Distributed Systems) at high scale, while offering opportunities to build with Native AWS services. The organization combines the culture of a startup, the innovation and creativity of an R&D Lab, the work-life balance of a mature organization and AWS-scale technical challenges.The top candidate will lead a software development team in the AWS Health organization in Cape Town, owning one or more critical services that help AWS customers keep their workloads/applications up and running on AWS, and resolve issues when they occur. As the leader of the team, the individual will be responsible for setting a high operational bar, driving high availability and scalability of the service, and hiring and developing the best engineers to deliver features that delight customers. The candidate will have significant leadership responsibility to define the team's vision and goals, engage closely with stakeholders and customers, and manage delivery.Key job responsibilitiesHire, motivate, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team, providing them with appropriate opportunities to succeed in their career objectives.Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work effectively with product managers and software engineers on other service teams to ensure the successful delivery of features.Lead engineering team in executing against project plans, and delivery commitments.Delivery of high-quality, scalable software on-time and on-budget.Work closely with the leadership team to provide input on annual, roadmaps, and strategic discussions.Be deeply involved with engineers to architect and develop the best technical designs and approaches.Build operational excellence to reduce lead times and maintain the operations of critical services.Clearly communicate technical decisions and progress to both technical and non-technical audiences.Conduct performance reviews of team members.Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into detailed project plans.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS3+ years of engineering team management experience and 7+ years of engineering experience8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services experienceKnowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operationsExperience partnering with product or program management teams and experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environmentExperience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systemsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSExperience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategyExperience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineersMaster's degreeExperience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world-class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customersAmazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. 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