DESCRIPTION Success in any organization begins with its people and having a comprehensive understanding of our workforce and how we best utilize their unique skills and experience is paramount to our future success and is the primary focus of the Workforce Planning Team.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Come join the team that owns the technology behind AWS People Planning products, services, and metrics. We leverage technology to improve the experience of AWS Executives, HR/Recruiting/Finance leaders, and internal AWS planning partners.
As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) in the AWS Workforce Planning team, you will be involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including architecture, design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You will be an important part of the AWS Workforce products team and will focus on leveraging native AWS solutions to build and scale scrappy and new applications that will deliver consumer like experiences to AWS employees and candidates.
You will work closely with small teams of Software Engineers, Product Managers, Data Engineers and Scientists to create best practices/tooling in workforce planning, ML modeling, and analysis. You will enable a global staff of workforce strategists and cross functional groups to perform scenario analysis and understand downstream impact of workforce decisions. As a tech expert, you will be an advocate for compelling user experiences and will demonstrate the value of automation and data-driven planning tools in HR.
Key job responsibilities
This position is right for you if you are passionate about solving the ambiguous software challenges on behalf of our customers and users. Being deeply customer focused is a must: understand multiple customers' challenges and you are constantly looking for ways to pursue them. You are able to think creatively, operate best within a small agile team, and are able to think like a product manager while still supporting our Data team.
This Role will:
* Actively collaborate with our product manager and implementation team to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.
* Lead designing, building, and testing features for brand new planning applications.
* Support and collaborate with our with our other SDEs and DEs.
* Consider and advise on key design and technology trade-offs as we launch, scale and migrate new planing applications.
To be successful on this journey, you love having high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and always look for opportunities to make our services better.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer within AWS, you will partner across the WFP group guided by a senior member of the team. You will play a key role on the Workforce Planning Science, Tooling and Inspection sub-teams that influence the long-range plans of the business and the technical agenda that supports it. You will influence tools and programs serving senior leaders globally and impacting AWS' future.
The ideal Software Development Engineer has a strong sense of ownership, is self-driven, loves breaking new ground.
About the team
Our team communicates who we are as an employer – what it's like to be an Amazonian, why we love innovating on behalf of customers and why people should join us. We build trust with our partners, dive deep into our data, and love to learn and be curious as we deliver results. Our job is to bring that to life.
Workforce Planning (a part of the AWS People Experience and Technology Business) is embedded in every part of the planning ecosystem including financial planning targets, optimization modeling, talent and location intelligence, headcount planning, forecasting and much more, touching every step of the employee lifecycle up to the point of hire. Our small team of Software Development Engineers , PMs, developers, data engineers, strategists and scientists are passionate about using technology and data driven decisions to define the "who, what, when, and where" of the AWS workforce.
Our org has a broad mix of professional experience levels, Amazon tenures, backgrounds, cultures, and identities, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing, mentorship, and results. Yes we do get to build a really cool service, but we also think a big reason for that is the collaborative culture, and career opportunities we try to cultivate every day.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Fullstack Experience: FE - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Demonstrated experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- BE - experience with backend development of microservices with RESTful APIs. Should have deep expertise with at least one backend framework such as Spring, Django, Gin, or Express.js
