Amazon

Senior Technical Program Manager, Terrestrial Networking Team

Amazon • $148K — $201K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in technical program management with software engineering teams
  • 3+ years in project management, including scope, schedule, budget, and quality
  • 3+ years of software development experience
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science preferred

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineering leaders to develop project plans for networking software
  • Ensure development aligns with schedule, cost, and quality requirements
  • Drive project execution, managing trade-offs and tracking progress
  • Coordinate with architecture and software teams for cross-functional deliverables
  • Establish management processes for scrums, budgets, and schedules
  • Map dependencies and monitor progress for key milestones

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
  • Mental health support and EAP services
  • Flexible spending accounts
Full Job Description
The Amazon Leo team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager with experience in networking software, project management, and program management. The role will interface with cross-functional engineering and program/product management teams with primary focus on delivering top quality Terrestrial Networking Team Software. Join us and make a difference to people around the world.

Key job responsibilities

In this role you will:

- Collaborate with engineering leaders to create project plans for Terrestrial Networking software development.

- Work with product/program management to ensure that development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.

- Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.

- Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, firmware teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.

- Establish mechanisms to manage scrums, tasks, budgets, dashboards, schedule and overall delivery for the Satellite Payload and Data Plane software

- Map dependencies and track accuracy of plans and technical developments for all major milestones

A day in the life

In this role, you will build and scale Project Leo's Satellite Payload and Data Plane software development programs. You are accountable for creating and working the complex multi-subsystem program plan for the development, test and delivery of Leo's Satellite Payload system and Data Plane, and their integration with rest of Leo system for delivering an end-to-end network solution with an exceptional quality of experience for our customers.

About the team

The Team is responsible for Architecture, design and delivering and end to end Networking systems for both constellation and ground, as well as the services that utilize the network to delivery last mile and back-haul internet services.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience

- 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

- 3+ years of software development experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 171,000.00 - 231,400.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Redmond - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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