About The Position
Do you love decomposing problems to develop products that impact millions of people around the world? Would you enjoy identifying, defining, and building software solutions that revolutionize how businesses operate? Are you committed to fundamentally transforming the way national security and defense mission agencies partner with industry to meet mission requirements? Do you possess experience managing large, complex programs? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to manage multiple large-scale programs for our most sensitive regions. Technical Program Managers handle the heavy lifting of making sure that large scale programs and projects in AWS are driven efficiently and effectively. You will be responsible for identifying the stakeholders, driving to set roadmaps and strategies for the program, driving delivery, reporting status, and holding the bar on quality. You will need to work with many teams in different domains and will work effectively with engineers, engineering managers, product managers, dev support teams and customer service teams to deliver results. If you are someone who has passion and experience for managing large scale programs, we would love to hear from you. Our company credo is "Work hard. Have fun. Make history". You will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will have experience refining processes, leading cross-functional teams, and communicating to diverse audiences. You will be a positive influencer across teams, be able to effectively rally support for your initiatives and help deeply technical teams create simple solutions to meet program goals. You are able to handle business escalations with a data-driven approach to build trust with engineers and Sr. leaders. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and we expect team members and management alike to take high degree of ownership for their program vision and execution of ideas. You will create, track and investigate metrics which define the success of your programs and future opportunities. AWS is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. Our services scale to staggering levels and are highly distributed. AWS’s rapid worldwide expansion creates new challenges in data protection, availability, and growth. Come join us! This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen. The candidate selected must obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level. Upon start, the selected candidate will be sponsored for a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work. 10012 Key job responsibilities This role requires ambition, thinking big, self-motivation, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and startup-like environment. In this role you will:
Requirements
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
Nice To Haves
- 10+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
- Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience with MS Project, MS Office, and MS SharePoint
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple high-profile programs and projects across multiple supporting teams to deliver outcomes under commitments to senior AWS leaders and senior customer leaders
- Analyze large data sets to identify complex patterns and relationships resulting in practical solutions to real business problems
- Be willing to “get your hands dirty” in a start-up environment to act as change agent and create new applications, tools, processes as needed
- Anticipate bottlenecks, providing escalation management and making tradeoffs
- Evangelize within AWS to encourage a fast and smooth adoption of initiatives and programs
- Earn trust through regular communication with senior management on program status and risks
- Own the metrics for project success and define, measure and report on these metrics
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
