Senior TPM – Region Services (Australia)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead multi-year regional initiatives and deliver large-scale, cross-functional programs across Melbourne or Sydney. You will shape roadmaps, drive design reviews, and partner with engineering teams to accelerate delivery while managing risks and stakeholder communications.

The role emphasizes strong communication, influence without authority, and a data-driven approach to keep programs on track and aligned

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience in system design.
• Experience working directly with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage high-profile program(s) across multiple supporting teams to deliver successful outcomes for our customers and AWS.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, proactively seek solutions to problems, provide escalation management and tradeoff decisions that benefit the program.
• Earn trust through regular communication with senior management on program status and risks, demonstrating the ability to synthesize the problems and the solutions into a simple and consumable manner.
• Rely heavily on influence over authority to drive project deliverables.
• Own the metrics for project success and define, measure and report on these metrics. This involves data collection, analytics and dashboard creation as a way to report progress and help others recognize the best path to make the business better.
• Develop, improve, and share operational best practices across the region and with peers globally.
• Demonstrate ownership to help improve the safety, security, availability of our region operations.
• Mentor, train, and develop career progression for indirect reports and members of the organization (Technicians and Technical Program Managers).
• Obsess over team learning and development, both from a technical/functional and soft skills (critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and adaptability) development perspective.

Skills

Program management

Roadmap planning

System design

Software development

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead multi-year regional initiatives and deliver large-scale, cross-functional programs across Melbourne or Sydney. You will shape roadmaps, drive design reviews, and partner with engineering teams to accelerate delivery while managing risks and stakeholder communications.

The role emphasizes strong communication, influence without authority, and a data-driven approach to keep programs on track and aligned