Amazon

Technical Program Manager, AWS DC Central Operations

Amazon$127K — $172K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • 2+ years of analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentation experience
  • 3+ years of project management experience in scope, schedule, budget, and risk management
  • Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams
  • Working directly with engineering teams (preferred, 3+ years)
  • Knowledge of lean techniques and Six Sigma tools (preferred)
  • Certification in Six Sigma, Lean, or PMP (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Manage operational relationships to drive performance improvements
  • Utilize analytical skills and data to support assumptions and develop business cases
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define and deliver complex solutions
  • Proactively identify and simplify processes
  • Contribute to and influence technical designs for projects
  • Lead the delivery of large, complex technical projects
  • Manage risks, bottlenecks, and trade-offs effectively
  • Maintain and disseminate program information to stakeholders

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) and mental health support
Full Job Description
The Data Center Central Operations team works with the hundreds of AWS data centers around the globe to deliver the highest quality and lowest cost physical security, availability, capacity, and scaling results for our customers. Our aim is to standardize operations globally by delivering tools, policy, processes and procedures to our internal teams. The team is seeking a Technical Program Manger to solve innovative problems via business process and technology innovations. They will be a highly visible leader that will own the communication, coordination, and execution of a multi-year program vision. Our mission is to provide critical data to operators and engineers that enables them to make informed decisions for maintenance of data center facilities. Our team of TPMs work with senior product and engineering leaders to define strategy and requirements. They design, coordinate, and execute technical solutions that scale globally. Managing numerous complex systems and organizations, they are expected to make appropriate trade-offs between business vs. technical constraints, clearly communicate goals, roles, and responsibilities. They also identify opportunities to converge overlapping technical efforts, and drive the long term strategy.

You9ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You9ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you9ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities

The successful candidate is able to:

- Manage Operational relationships with support teams and internal operations business partners to drive increased performance

- Demonstrate analytical and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases

- Effectively interact and collaborate with Customers, Project Sponsors, Technical Product Managers and multiple internal teams to define and deliver complex solutions

- Proactively recognize and drive opportunities to simplify processes

- Contribute to and influence technical designs

- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities

- Lead the effective and efficient delivery of large, complex technical projects and programs

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs with technical constraints

- Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels

- Create, maintain and disseminate program information to stakeholders

- Travel up to 25%

A day in the life

In this role, you will be working with our stakeholders and customers to define and implement Non- Destructive Testing (NDT) maintenance standards globally for multiple equipment categories deployed at AWS Data Centers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of technical product or program management experience

- 2+ years of analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentations experience

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

- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

- Knowledge of lean techniques and Six Sigma tools

- Six Sigma, lean or PMP certification

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, VA, Herndon - 127,100.00 - 172,000.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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