Senior Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst

Senior Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst

Job ID: 3012361 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Amazon’s long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world? It’s Day 1 for Amazon’s next billion-dollar business and the Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) business is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Sr. Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst to work in a startup environment who is passionate about technology, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions, processes and controls with a focus on the public sector. The KGS team is focused on Government customers around the world, including U.S. DoD and other national security customers.

The successful candidate will be responsible for executing day-to-day program planning and scheduling tasks within KGS, providing qualitative and quantitative data analysis for program performance management, ensuring the business meets critical deliverables and program schedules (Integrated Master Schedule), as well as risk and opportunity tracking, management and mitigation. This leader will work cross-functionally alongside the program finance team, as well as the program management and engineering teams to ensure Government funded programs are tracked and performed on cost and schedule. As KGS grows and takes on more complex contract types, the successful candidate will be responsible for performing Earned Value Management (EVM) activities. While still in the startup phase, KGS will be tracking EVM “lite” metrics from an internal management perspective for program performance. The program planning organization will have responsibility for aligning our product roadmaps with Kuiper availability, ensuring we have products Government customers can use when Kuiper service comes online. The Sr. Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst will also be responsible for creating integrated schedules that lay in both government program commitments as well as internal deadlines, and then align with Kuiper commercial on product availability and dependencies.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work with KGS program managers, engineering staff, and finance to standardize development of KGS program schedules (resource loaded)
• Support KGS program managers and capture managers on development of proposal schedules in an ambiguous environment (outlining tasks, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables)
• Work with KGS program managers and engineering staff on scheduling approaches for program dependencies
• Develop processes that automate program planning & scheduling in support of RFx responses, new program stand‑up, and annual budget submission
• Develop integrated KGS portfolio schedule that tracks key milestones and dependencies across all KGS programs
• Build “what‑if” scheduling tools/processes that support KGS program risk and opportunity assessments and program trade studies
• Security Clearance: This position requires that the selected candidate be a U.S. citizen and must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance of TS/SCI

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analysis experience
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics or business, or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re‑engineering, quality assurance) experience
• Export control requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
• 5+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• 5+ years of U.S. Government contracts performing program planning and scheduling, EVM, and risk & opportunity management experience
• 10+ years of hands‑on experience with program planning/scheduling tools (e.g., Cobra, Open Plan, Microsoft Project, Primavera, etc.)
• 10+ years performing critical path analysis, generating schedule analysis to advise PMs on options to improve schedule performance and managing schedule metrics

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.