Job Description
Transportation Financial Systems (TFS) team is looking for a talented and highly motivated Sr. Technical Program Manager (TPM) who enjoy solving challenging and complex business problems at Amazon scale.
Key job responsibilities
The right candidate will possess a strong program management background, has experience leading large projects, and has a well-rounded technical background in current technologies. As a Sr. Technical Program Manager, you will be Single Threaded Owner (STO) to lead and develop scalable solutions across multiple engineering teams, driving project schedules from design to release, stakeholder management and managing the production launch for large cross org programs. You will work directly with customers, disambiguate the requirements, anticipate bottlenecks and risks, make trade-offs, provide escalation management and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, destroy limits to scale, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives while rolling up your sleeves to get the job done. This role will require high judgement on how we can deliver for customers in both the short- and long-term.
A day in the life
TFS has over 150+ engineers, and 15+ product & program managers. Each TPM is responsible for delivering large to medium programs; working closely with clients and product, building transformation roadmaps to deliver long term benefits for our customers.
About the team
Transportation Financial Systems (TFS) platform owns the technology components that perform the financial activities for Amazon’s transportation business. TFS systems are used across all Amazon’s transportation programs and retail expansion to new geographies. The platform provide financial document creation & management, expense auditing, accounting, payments and cost allocation functions. Our new generation products are highly scalable and operate at finer level granularity to reconcile every dollar in transportation financial accounts with zero manual entries or corrections. The goal is to develop global product suite for all freight modes touching every single package movement across Amazon. Our mission is to abstract logistics complexities from financial world and financial complexities from logistics world. You will be part of one of the largest tech and program team with ~200 engineering organization with great growth and lateral opportunity.
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
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