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Director, Strategic Design, Finance Technology
Amazon
Seattle, WA, United States
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DESCRIPTION
Do you thrive in enterprise-wide initiatives with cross-functional teams, including Finance and Technology that result in futuristic solutions? Have you delivered innovative technology solutions for Finance organizations? If yes, Finance Technology’s Strategic Design team is the place for you. Strategic Design’s mission is to identify innovative finance technology solutions that will enable Amazon’s growth to a $1 trillion company and to provide near real-time financial data to internal and external customers.
We are seeking a results-oriented leader who will lead a team of business architects that will have a deep understanding of existing technology and the needs from our business and finance communities to identify solutions to achieve current and future objectives. With these objectives in the forefront, this leader will drive the design of the next generation of systems to automate, optimize, and scale critical financial processes. These systems will be those used to collect, store, and report real-time data.
Strategic Design interacts with all of Amazon’s businesses globally and the majority of our projects are cross-functional. Much of our work enables Amazon’s new market or business model launches and happens as part of these enterprise programs. We partner integrally with the CFO organization, including the central finance functions and line of business leadership.
Our team drives the strategic design of the platforms owned by Finance Technology and influences upstream systems as it relates to overall business capabilities. Finance Technology’s platforms are among the largest in the world by volume and complexity, and a successful candidate will be able to dive deep into either realm to guide technical and functional decisions with their team. As a leader, you will drive architectural and design choices, identify new features and distributed services, and design scalable, service-oriented platform for the Finance community. A successful candidate will be high-bandwidth leader who can cut through the noise, simplify and deliver results, and build great teams.
The leader will need to partner and influence technology, finance, and business partners, including investment roadmaps, across the company. This leader’s team will first focus on business-specific initiatives including AWS, Amazon Video, and Consumer. Initiatives will vary between inflight and not started. This leader will need to be able to advance the level of sophistication and critical thought around the technology that will be developed that supports Amazon’s growth.
Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, has proven success identifying what many would consider disparate business capabilities and designing simple and scalable solutions. The ideal candidate also loves working with big data and enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts that are typically being defined in real-time.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object oriented design, and design patterns.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• +15 years of combined experience in business architecture, systems and solution design/analysis strategy, and other related roles.
• Enterprise-wide experience dealing with finance and business processes, systems and data at the scale of Fortune 50 multi-national companies.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience with global technology implementation efforts and rollouts
• Experience working with third-party platforms and integration at scale
• Experience in the finance, accounting or tax domains.