Technical Program Manager (L6), GTMC - ITDS

The Connected Talent Management System team, part of Global Talent Management & Compensation (GTMC) is looking for a Technical Program Manager to join the team in Edinburgh as part of a strategic investment to build the next generation of Amazon's talent management solutions leveraging data and science. You will be instrumental in delivering intelligent solutions that offer a consumer-grade user experience to evaluate and manage performance of Amazon’s talent base of more than a million employees. Our engineering team’s scope include but not limited to user experience design, micro-service development, micro front-end development, big data engineering and machine learning. In GTMC we are building the tools that will enable Amazon to retain its unique "Day One" company culture whilst continuing to grow its talent base.

As a TPM, you will be defining the product vision and roadmap in a data-driven and working backward (from customer) approach for 5 engineering teams based in Edinburgh and Seattle. You will bring teams across organizations together, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
• Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
• Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience in system design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership