Sr. TPM BESS, AWS Global Energy

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS is deploying battery energy storage systems across its data center fleet. We seek a Senior Technical Program Manager to coordinate delivery across the BESS portfolio, spanning FTM, BTM, and strategic energy partnerships.

You will build program cadences, drive cross-functional alignment, and provide leadership with visibility into capacity, timelines, and decisions. The role reports to the BESS program lead and collaborates with engineering, procurement, finance, and legal teams to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams.
• 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end program delivery across FTM and BTM work streams into a single source of truth.
• Establish and run program mechanisms: weekly status, monthly business reviews, and cross-functional syncs.
• Build automated reporting and KPI dashboards for capacity, milestones, spend, blockers.
• Prepare leadership-ready materials for VP and S-team reviews.
• Track deployment readiness including interconnection, permitting, site planning, OEM status, commissioning.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate decisions into program impacts.

Skills

Program management

Engineering collaboration

Executive communication

Cross-functional alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Description

AWS is deploying battery energy storage systems (BESS) across its global data center fleet. To support this initiative, we are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to support the BESS program lead in coordinating delivery across AWS's full BESS portfolio — spanning front-of-the-meter (FTM), behind-the-meter (BTM), and strategic energy partnerships. You will build and run the program mechanisms that keep a complex, multi-org initiative on track: standing up reporting cadences, driving cross-functional alignment, and ensuring senior leadership has clear visibility into capacity delivery, timelines, and decisions needed. This is a high-visibility role with direct exposure to Director and VP level reviews.

Key job responsibilities

• Support the BESS program lead in coordinating end-to-end program delivery across front-of-the-meter (FTM) and behind-the-meter (BTM) BESS work streams consolidating status, dependencies, and critical path items into a single source of truth.
• Establish and run program mechanisms including weekly status updates, monthly business reviews (MBR), and work stream syncs with engineering and cross-functional partners (Procurement, Finance, Legal, Public Policy, FRE, regional energy teams).
• Build automated reporting and KPI dashboards — capacity unlocked (MW), deployment milestones, spend tracking, and key blockers — replacing manual processes with scalable mechanisms.
• Prepare leadership-ready materials including page-zero summaries, capacity-focused drill-downs, and decision documents for VP and S-team reviews.
• Track deployment readiness across BESS programs including integration requirements, utility interconnection, permitting, site planning, OEM qualification status, and commissioning schedules.
• Partner with engineering teams (PGS, DCE) to maintain awareness of technical solutions and translate engineering decisions into program, capacity, and timeline impacts.

A day in the life

Amazon's vision is to be the world's most customer-centric company, and this role is key to that vision as BESS is a strategic priority for AWS. Each day you will interact with teams responsible for battery engineering, power system design, procurement, finance, regional energy management, and data center operations. You prioritize activities to support BESS capacity delivery, solve problems and blockers, and focus on the actions most impactful for program success

About the team

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. The Global Energy team within AIS is responsible for securing reliable, cost-effective power for AWS data centers worldwide. We work at the intersection of energy technology, product strategy, and infrastructure planning — evaluating emerging technologies, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring alignment between energy roadmaps and AWS infrastructure requirements. You'll join a diverse team of engineers, energy specialists, and program managers working on some of the most complex energy challenges in the industry.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Master's degree or equivalent in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent
• Experience in battery energy storage systems (BESS), battery technology, energy storage deployments, data center power architecture, utility interconnection, or grid-scale energy systems
• Hardware product development experience in data center power infrastructure or adjacent industries (EV, consumer electronics, power systems etc)
• Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar programs and managing programs across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to distill complex technical programs into concise, actionable narratives for Director and VP audiences

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USA, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually