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Amazon Senior Technical Program Manager, GREF Tech in Arlington, Virginia

Description

Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) Tech: Pioneering Corporate Real Estate Technology. Our software development team is dedicated to creating innovative services and tools that enable Amazon's corporate real estate operations across more than 60 countries. We develop sophisticated systems that transform workspace management through intelligent, adaptive technologies. Our mission focuses on simplifying and enhancing corporate real estate processes by building comprehensive solutions that address critical domains including: Space and occupancy planning, design and construction management, employee health and safety, sustainability initiatives and advanced building management systems with IoT integration.

We leverage cutting-edge technology to create seamless, creative workspace experiences that optimize organizational efficiency and support Amazon's global infrastructure strategy. Our team is committed to developing intelligent, scalable solutions that redefine how modern corporations manage and interact with their physical environments.

Key job responsibilities

This senior Technical Program Manager role will manage large and complex technology initiatives across multiple teams and organizations. They develop the overall strategy for large programs from concept to delivery. This position requires the candidate to assemble project teams, assign individual responsibilities, identify appropriate resources as needed, and develop schedules to ensure timely project completion. This opportunity requires excellent technical, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. They communicate ideas effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences including engineers, Directors and VPs. The candidate will have experience defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets as well as analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization.

Cross-functional technical expertise is required for this position. They understand the architecture of the systems, influence technical priorities and business strategy through data-driven analysis. The candidate must independently lead projects and deliver expert-level solutions based on thorough analysis of business requirements, and work collaboratively across the organization to identify opportunities for process improvements. The candidate should be capable of assessing the right balance of risk to allocate the right resources, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints and encourage risk taking behavior to maximize business benefit. They apply best project management best practices and increase the productivity of the teams.

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.

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