Job Description
Do you yearn to make a meaningful difference in people's lives? Our team is beginning development of a product that accelerates the approval of life-changing therapies and medical devices by modernizing clinical trials. Clinical trials are a crucial step to deliver new life-changing therapies and medical devices to patients, but today’s trials are encumbered with manual processes, incompatible systems, and lack of timely communication among stakeholders. Join our team and help create the new future as we create products to streamline and transform how clinical trials are conducted for our medical device and life science company customers.
As a Software Development Manager, you’ll collaborate with customers and other AWS leaders to define and build a product to accelerate clinical trials. You will build and lead a team to deliver and refine our new product in the complex, ambiguous, and evolving clinical trials landscape. You’ll bring your proven history delivering cloud-based products and your obsession with delighting customers. You’ll be complimented in your role by a leadership team with broad experience delivering healthcare and life sciences products, with experience founding and leading startup companies, with track records of building new products that delight customers, and with experience building and leading high-performing and rapidly growing product teams.
This role is your opportunity to collaborate with a strong leadership team and to build upon your unique experience and skills to create a new transformative product and modernize an industry ready for change.
Key job responsibilities
Lead one or more engineering teams and collaborate with other teams and product leaders to deliver and operate a transformative new clinical trials product.
Hire and develop team members to be leaders as the product teams grows and expands to deliver rich product capabilities in a multi-year roadmap of innovation.
Create a culture of trust, mutual support, rapid delivery, and engineering excellence.
About the team
The AWS Industry Products (AIP) Healthcare and Life Science team collaborates with strategic customers to build transformative products that drive real-world impact at AWS scale. We are a team of innovators with a passion for tackling difficult problems. We aren’t interested in incremental improvements. We want to transform the healthcare and life sciences industries to reduce the barriers to access and make care delivery more efficient and effective. We operate in a start-up like environment, deliver via fast iterations, and partner with leading healthcare and life sciences organizations to improve the lives of patients and clinicians.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge 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 operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience with the data management, integration, and governance challenges inherent in developing mission-critical products that support clinical trials processes.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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Full time, Flexible hours,