Sr. Technical Program Manager, Payment Services

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative and forward-thinking company is seeking a Sr. Technical Program Manager to lead the development of cutting-edge payment solutions. This role offers the chance to influence technical architecture and drive the product lifecycle across multiple teams. You will work in a dynamic environment, tackling challenges at scale while delivering exceptional customer experiences. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact in the FinTech space, this position is perfect for you. Join a team that values creativity and excellence, and help shape the future of payments for millions of customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical program management.
• Experience working with engineering teams and software development.
• Strong track record in shaping business strategy for technical products.

Responsibilities

• Drive product direction and roadmap planning for payment services.
• Collaborate with engineers to develop scalable systems.
• Manage cross-functional development teams from design through delivery.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Software Development

Agile Project Management

Cross-Functional Team Coordination

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Payment Services

Come challenge yourself and learn from the best. Work with a world class team building market leading services of unprecedented scale.
The Amazon Payments(AP) organization is hiring a Sr. Technical Program Manager with a vision to provide Amazon businesses with industry leading checkout conversion rates by minimizing friction and maximizing access for customers. PayStation Checkout and Wallet enables customers to make fast and secure payments with their desired payment methods. We operate over 35 services including 9 tier-1 services that handle all payment method definition and selection requests in Amazon.
We are looking for a highly skilled, experienced, and motivated Engineering Leader to innovate and solve the challenges at a massive scale. You will drive product direction and road-map planning, project execution, and closely collaborate with engineers to develop systems. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and leadership expertise, and ability to work within a fast-paced startup culture in a large company to deliver new payment experience and delight millions of customers.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor and start on the FinTech innovation. You will use your experience to drive innovative, customer-focused payment solutions to provide local paying experiences for Amazon’s customers around the globe.
If you are a superstar Technical Program Manager, come join us! You will get an opportunity to influence Amazon's technical architecture across multiple organizations, establish and own a roadmap. This role requires working across engineering and product teams to define strategy and requirements and lead cross functional development teams from design through delivery. You will be accountable for driving the entire product lifecycle, from product definition through specification, coding, quality assurance and launch to the world. This position involves regular communication with senior leadership on status, risks and change control. Cross-team coordination, agile project management and executive presentation skills are essential. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, analytical and communication skills.

Key job responsibilities
From a business and technical perspective, these are the expectations:
- Have a strong track record of shaping business strategy for technical products or services
- Understand how to design scalable software
- Be conversant with internet technologies
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical partners
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit
- Exhibits excellent judgment
- Has relentlessly high standards, is never satisfied with the status quo
- Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business
- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to earn trust of others
- Results orientation

About the team
Amazon Payment's mission is “To be the leader in trusted, innovative, and scalable payments technology that powers Amazon to build experiences that delight our customers”. We innovate to create services and tools enabling one of the most complex, highly secure and resilient global money movement networks in the world, supporting payment acceptance and payouts for every buyer and seller experience in Amazon world-wide. We protect customer’s sensitive data (payments critical or critical PII) at rest and during transmission to 125+ partners with highest security bar.

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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