Senior Technical Program Manager, IES LATech & GIS
Senior Technical Program Manager, IES LATech & GIS
As a Technical Program Manager III at Amazon, you will deliver independently with limited guidance, working within a VP organization to influence system owners and architecture decisions. You'll own large, complex cross‑functional technology initiatives and manage their complete lifecycle.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead strategic programs and drive innovation
- Own delivery timelines for strategic, complex initiatives while helping the team to define solutions
- Partner with peers, managers, stakeholders, and engineering teams to develop and execute projects
- Guide technical teams in solution design, development, and implementation
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and leadership
- Drive documentation and knowledge sharing of successful patterns and best practices
- Develop and execute mitigation strategies for identified risks and challenges
- Maintain regular stakeholder communications through structured reporting
- Lead operational reviews to ensure visibility into development progress
- Establish metrics and KPIs to track program success and team performance
- Actively mentor and develop others
- Perform technical promotion assessments
A day in the life
Strategic Impact: Work is both tactical and strategic – you’ll unblock teams, increase delivery speed, negotiate resources and priorities, and learn to force multiply.
Problem Solving Able to find a path forward in difficult situations and escalate effectively when needed.
Decision Making: Make trade-offs between short‑term needs and long‑term needs.
About the
LATech mission is to create technology to enable sustainable growth for Amazon Stores across Latin America, through products, experiments, and solutions that solve local problems for customers and seller partners on a global scale. We are a product, technology, and data science organization with nearly 400 engineers, organized into 40+ cross‑functional teams across 5 divisions: Global Invoicing Services, Shopping, FBA, Chain & Fulfillment, and Machine Learning. We own over 150 services (20 tier‑1) that support the operations of Amazon Stores in 17+ countries.
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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