The Amazon Foundational People Data Services (FPDS) organization is building cutting-edge solutions to enable employees and managers to self-serve changes across all human resource processes.
Join us in building an innovative technology using Amazon Web Services to meet the complex and unique demands of managing nearly 3,000,000 employees globally. We dive deep to insist on the highest standards in architecture, coding, testing, deploying, and maintaining every aspect of our offerings.
Mentorship & Career Growth: Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
Work/Life Balance: Our team also maintains an inclusive team culture, and we put a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success.
Our teams provide access and storage of human capital information to an extensive ecosystem across Amazon and its associated vendors as we build new systems to take us into the future. Data from our platform is vital to calculate compensation, payroll, benefits, hiring, onboarding and separation activities, security and access controls, fulfillment center operations, and provide many other low-friction business processes and world-class experiences for everyone at Amazon who innovates on behalf of our customers.
Our engineering teams continuously strive to build and run an infrastructure that can process billions of queries, provide data consistency and availability-related solutions in a distributed systems architecture, functional data materialization for unique business use cases, data visualization and analytics products, and set up data privacy controls. We are building a one-of-a-kind cloud-native platform uniquely positioned to accelerate delivering customer value across Amazon!
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Technical Program Manager, you'll orchestrate the delivery of high-impact, cross-functional product initiatives while adeptly juggling multiple concurrent projects. Your exceptional organizational and communication skills will be instrumental in navigating ambiguity, identifying challenges, and crafting innovative solutions. Cross-team coordination, project management, executive communication, and presentation prowess are essential for success in this role.
-Spearhead the seamless delivery of large-scale, highly cross-functional product initiatives while meticulously tracking and managing a portfolio of smaller projects simultaneously.
-Drive strategic cross-functional planning by collaborating closely with product managers and engineering leads. Lead the discovery and prioritization processes, developing comprehensive program plans encompassing roadmaps, dependency mapping, and resource allocation.
-Critically analyze feature requests to uncover the underlying true requirements. Recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines while ensuring quality.
-Communicate plans, statuses, and critical updates to executive management with clarity and effectiveness, leveraging outstanding presentation skills.
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
- 7+ 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
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