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Sr. Technical Program Manager, AWS Region Expansion

Job ID: 2770924 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an Senior Technical Program Manager to join the Region Build team.

Do you want to make a difference by serving billions of world wide customers? Do you want to work alongside exceptionally talented technologist and industry leaders? Do you want to break new ground through your ideas and innovation? If yes, talk to us!

Key job responsibilities
1. You are accountable for building AWS Regions and launching new AWS Infrastructure to enable AWS services to reach billions of customers globally.
2. You will plan and collaborate with multiple stakeholder teams, including infrastructure, networking and services teams, to deliver work.
3. You will leverage your strong program management background to develop and manage schedules, identify and manage risks, manage scope and timelines by mitigating constraints/blockers, influence and negotiate with external teams and stakeholders, maintain partnerships and conduct timely escalations to leadership.
4. You will leverage your strong technical background to solve complex Region build problems, deep dive on technical blockers, design solutions, make technical trade-off decisions, and work closely with engineering teams to drive implementation.
5. You successfully represent program status to senior leadership. Your program management expertise and operational excellence influence the team’s decisions and drive secure and scalable solutions.
6. You raise the bar on delivery through introduction of best practices, technology innovation and schedule optimization. You achieve operational efficiency and customer centric delivery through automation and effective collaboration across service teams.
7. In this role, you are at the forefront of cloud technologies with interactions across the full breadth of AWS services, and must be creative and forward leaning in developing solutions.
8. Most importantly, you are a technical leader with strong communication skills and ability to deliver results on complex, ambiguous projects.

This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport. By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

About the team
This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport. By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.

**Why AWS
**Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

**Diverse Experiences**
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

**Work/Life Balance* *
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

**Inclusive Team Culture* *
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

**Mentorship and Career Growth**
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.