As part of Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA) Data team, you'll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations. ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location, and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems.

The Sr Manager, Data Engineering role in ITA is responsible for leading a portfolio of data engineering teams and services to solve multiple complex problems related to all aspects of hiring. The Sr Manager, Data Engineering will partner with multiple stakeholders to efficiently deliver data infrastructure, data modelling, insights, engineering for data science and model technical excellence in the data space. The role is a leader of multiple teams requiring proven people management experience with an ability to define and deliver strategy across a global technical ecosystem.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, and utilizing agile development processes. You will look at problems holistically, beyond the borders of your team, and thrive on solutions that require thinking at multiple levels, from strategic to business tactical to system goals to specific interfaces. You create positive collaborative outcomes and ensure solutions are reliable, scalable and secure, and always keep the customer's best interest in mind.

Key job responsibilities
As a senior manager of Data Engineering, you will lead multiple teams of builders to define, drive and deliver on Intelligent Talent Acquisition technology vision. You'll develop your team of highly motivated and talented builders who can collaborate with product managers, software engineers, scientists, data experts and business leaders to build robust solutions. The primary responsibilities include:

1. Setting the org priorities while balancing customer, stakeholder and business needs.
2. Defining the long term technical vision for the org that meets business needs in scalable ways.
3. Delivering high quality data engineering as well as rapid prototypes to gather user feedback and data.
4. Collaborating with product and business leaders to translate business needs to software solutions.
5. Hire and develop builders in the organization.

About the team
The Intelligent Talent Acquisition team has existed since 2019 and grew significantly to date through the combination of smaller engineering and analytics teams.

The team is diverse; its leadership team comes from engineering, operations, science, I/O psychology, and business intelligence backgrounds.

Intelligent Talent Acquisition is the largest data and science team involved in hiring at Amazon.

Sr Manager, Data Engineering, Intelligent Talent Acquisition