Senior Technical Program Manager, AWS Worldwide Public Sector Engineering (WWPSE)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced leader to own outcomes in the Public Sector engineering space. You will partner with sales, solution architecture, and engineering to drive high-impact, reusable solutions across government, healthcare, research, and education sectors.

You will shape strategy, manage a portfolio of engagements, and drive delivery end-to-end, ensuring the technical outcomes align with executive priorities and customer needs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 6+ years working directly with engineering teams.
• 5+ years technical program management with software engineers.
• Experience developing and executing product/technical roadmaps.
• Experience owning program strategy and communicating results to senior leadership.
• Experience communicating results to leadership with KPIs and data.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate where your verticals are heading and shape strategy with early engineering involvement.
• Own the framework to decide which opportunities receive engineering investment when demand exceeds capacity.
• Set and apply the bar that qualifies an engagement for scalability, multi-customer applicability, and impact.
• Work with engineers through the build, making architecture, scoping, and trade-off decisions.
• Drive co-build execution with AWS Service Teams and Partners, applying AI to accelerate delivery.
• Own end-to-end delivery from qualification through transfer, resolving cross-team ambiguity.
• Keep leadership updated on investments, outcomes, and impact realized.
• Influence peers and mentor engineers and program managers.

Skills

Technical product mgmt

Eng-team collaboration

PM with software

Roadmapping

Strategic thinking

Job description

Description

This is a role for someone who wants to own outcomes, not just track them. You'll embed directly with the sales leaders who own a public sector market, working backwards from their top priorities to decide where engineering can change the outcome - and getting a high-caliber engineering team into the room early, before problems become escalations. It's a seat with real access: you'll build trusted relationships with senior sales and solution leaders, shape what gets built, and see your work accelerate how governments, healthcare and research organizations, educational institutions, and mission-critical agencies adopt the cloud and AI.

What Sets This Role Apart

• You partner upstream with the leaders who own a market - working backwards from their biggest priorities rather than waiting for work to be handed down.
• You own a portfolio of engineering engagements end-to-end - from deciding what's worth building, through delivery, to handing a finished solution off to the customer or partner who will run with it.
• You work at the intersection of Sales, Solution Architecture, and Engineering, and you're the one who drives where scarce engineering capacity creates the most impact.
• You measure success by scaled impact - solutions that many customers can reuse - not one-off projects.
• You'll co-build alongside AWS service teams and partners on problems that genuinely can't be solved any other way, using AI both to accelerate how we build and to deliver AI-powered solutions to customers.

If you're customer obsessed, comfortable with ambiguity, and energized by turning "this can't be done" into "here's how we did it", we'd love to talk.

Key job responsibilities

• Anticipate where your verticals are heading and shape strategy, getting engineering involved early where it makes the biggest difference - including where AI is the critical path
• Own the framework that decides which opportunities receive engineering investment when demand exceeds capacity, weighing scale, reuse, complexity, time-to-impact, and delivery risk
• Set and apply the bar that qualifies an engagement - scalability, reusability, multi-customer applicability, force-multiplier potential - and make the hard calls on those that don't clear it
• Work side by side with engineers through the build, making the architecture, scoping, and tradeoff decisions that determine success - you own the technical outcome, not just the schedule
• Drive co-build execution hands-on with AWS Service Teams and Partners, applying AI to accelerate delivery and create reusable patterns that benefit many customers
• Own delivery end-to-end from qualification through transfer, resolving technical and cross-team ambiguity without escalation
• Keep leadership current on investments, outcomes, and realized impact
• Influence peers and partner teams, and mentor less-experienced engineers and program managers

About The Team

AWS Worldwide Public Sector Engineering (WWPSE) is a field-deployed engineering and AI team that unblocks top public sector priorities - helping partners scale, reinforcing AWS Service Teams, and building solutions that endure.

You’ll be an embedded engineering lead in one of our verticals - US Federal (FedFin, FedCiv), Healthcare & Life Sciences, or State/Local Government & Education - working across Sales, Solution Architecture, and Engineering, and applying AI to how we build and what we deliver.

This is a hands-on delivery role, not a coordination one: you're in the build with engineers, making the technical calls, accountable for the outcome.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 6+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
• Experience owning program strategy, managing end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• 3+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning), GenAI (Generative AI), Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
• Experience leading technical initiatives and key deliverables
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership, or experience using financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to support business decisions

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Arlington - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Herndon - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Job ID: A10493124