Application Engineering Manager - Tm1/planning Analytics Job in Amazon

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How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with solving a huge customer need through disruptive and innovative technology?

The Team: WW Operations Finance is poised for a revolution. Historically, automation and technical infusion has taken a back-seat to important financial functions such as controllership, financial oversight, risk mitigation, and strong investment analysis. Finance is set to be the Chief Story Tellers, and along the way inject machine learning, BI, advanced analytics and technical tools built to suit finance and business needs. To get there, the Financial Systems and Analytics Team (FSAT) is seeking an Application Engineering Manager to help lead a flagship multi-year project to inject automated planning and reporting, predictive forecasting, and help shape an end UI, built on the AWS Data Lake. We are the tech team that supports WW Amazon Operations one of the fastest growing, largest and most complex Supply Chains in the world. This position requires a high level of technical expertise within IBM Cognos TM1/Planning Analytics.

On the FSAT team, you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously you should too!


Responsibilities:
Lead a team of application engineers in the design, development, test, deployment and operation of TM1 modules.
Hire and develop smart and motivated engineers and managers to establish teams that can deliver fast and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.
Own the responsibility of building scalable and flexible architecture, create strategic vision and maintain long-term roadmap, and deliver quality results on time.
Work closely with other OPS Finance Business teams to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership.
Regularly dive into architecture, coding practices, test plans, project plans, deployments and operations to drive excellence through your organization. Represent your business and operations to the highest level of OPS Finance on a weekly basis.
Identify bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of relevant IBM Cognos TM1/Planning Analytics experience including system configuration, model building and developing reports or dashboards with TM1
Relevant corporate finance experience exhibiting knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting functions and related processes
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics or other technical discipline

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with solving a huge customer need through disruptive and innovative technology?

The Team: WW Operations Finance is poised for a revolution. Historically, automation and technical infusion has taken a back-seat to important financial functions such as controllership, financial oversight, risk mitigation, and strong investment analysis. Finance is set to be the Chief Story Tellers, and along the way inject machine learning, BI, advanced analytics and technical tools built to suit finance and business needs. To get there, the Financial Systems and Analytics Team (FSAT) is seeking an Application Engineering Manager to help lead a flagship multi-year project to inject automated planning and reporting, predictive forecasting, and help shape an end UI, built on the AWS Data Lake. We are the tech team that supports WW Amazon Operations one of the fastest growing, largest and most complex Supply Chains in the world. This position requires a high level of technical expertise within IBM Cognos TM1/Planning Analytics.

On the FSAT team, you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. To support this quickly growing business, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, setting high standards, and razor-sharp accuracy. We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously you should too!


Responsibilities:
Lead a team of application engineers in the design, development, test, deployment and operation of TM1 modules.
Hire and develop smart and motivated engineers and managers to establish teams that can deliver fast and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need.
Own the responsibility of building scalable and flexible architecture, create strategic vision and maintain long-term roadmap, and deliver quality results on time.
Work closely with other OPS Finance Business teams to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership.
Regularly dive into architecture, coding practices, test plans, project plans, deployments and operations to drive excellence through your organization. Represent your business and operations to the highest level of OPS Finance on a weekly basis.
Identify bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.