Jobs at Amazon in United Kingdom

Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems? Interested in building new state-of-the-art products at Petabyte scale? Be part of a team of industry leading experts that operates one of the largest big data analytics platforms at Amazon. We are responsible for end to end processing of impressions, views, and clicks. We are applying the latest machine learning and big data technologies available on terabytes of data a day (about 100B new events per day) operating Petabyte size clusters. Our data must always be the fastest, most high fidelity data as it is both billable, critical to checking the heartbeat of a campaign and changes to made to the campaigns while in flight, and part of the measure of success for a campaign.

Candidates for this position should, demonstrate leadership skills with analytical abilities and an drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities : - Own successful delivery of large, high impact and highly cross-functional product initiatives while simultaneously and accurately tracking a set of smaller projects

• Drive strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery and prioritization by closely partnering with product managers and engineering leads to develop program plans that include roadmaps, dependency identifications, and resourcing plans
• Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet timelines
• Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on plans, status, and critical issues
• Partner as a technical liaison between customers and engineering teams

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience owning / driving roadmap strategy and definition

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

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Technical Program Manager • Toronto, Ontario, CAN