System Development Engineer , AWS Supply Chain Finance presso Amazon

Description

The AWS Supply Chain Finance team is looking for a System Development Engineer to design and build scalable automation infrastructure that transforms manual financial processes into efficient, self-service systems. You'll architect solutions using cloud platforms and modern engineering practices to improve operational excellence, reduce costs, and enable our finance and business partners to work with greater velocity and less operational burden.

In this role, you'll work directly with business stakeholders to understand operational pain points, design technical solutions, and build end-to-end systems that combine multiple technologies to deliver optimal business outcomes. You'll own the full lifecycle from design through deployment and operations. While you'll maintain some existing automation solutions, the primary focus is building next-generation infrastructure aligned with our strategic direction toward cloud-native and AI-enabled automation.

Key job responsibilities

Build Automation Infrastructure

• Design and implement scalable automation systems using cloud platforms and modern development practices

• Build workflow orchestration and data processing solutions for financial operations

• Develop integration solutions that connect financial systems and enable seamless data flow

• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure system reliability

• Research and prototype AI-enabled automation solutions aligned with our strategic roadmap

Drive Operational Excellence

• Own the operational health of automation infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance

• Maintain and support existing automation solutions

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and operational readiness discussions

• Implement best practices for testing, deployment, and incident response

• Document architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner with business stakeholders to analyze existing processes and identify automation opportunities

• Work with partner teams to integrate automation solutions with existing systems

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members

• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively

Innovate and Improve

• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual work through automation

• Research and evaluate new technologies and approaches

• Continuously improve system reliability, cost-efficiency, and performance

• Share knowledge and best practices with the broader team

About the team

Our vision is to strengthen financial decisions and processes through data insights and automation, simplifying complexity and unlocking business value. Our mission is to deliver solutions that enable data-driven financial decisions, enhance operational efficiency, and strengthen controllership. We empower our business and finance partners by: providing CapEx rate planning tools; delivering analytics for inventory, spend, and cost analysis; managing Cost Adjustment processes for financial accuracy; developing automated solutions to streamline processes; maintaining secure data infrastructure for analytics, reporting, and automation.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development life cycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems, or experience in development or technical support

• Experience writing and publishing technical documents or equivalent

• Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building services using AWS products

• Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment

• Knowledge of database systems and SQL

• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

• Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field, or experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making

• Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization

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