Principal Technical Program Manager, DynamoDB

Amazon • Seattle, WA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, NoSQL database that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. The DynamoDB team is looking for a customer-obsessed, team-driven principal technical program manager to own capacity management, release coordination across different DynamoDB teams and building tracking mechanisms to improve operations of various services. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with service teams, infrastructure, and business development to design and deliver new features in front end services areas. You will collaborate with product teams to design solutions that make efficient use of resources and technologies. You will also work with all stakeholders to develop schedules that ensure timely launches. You will assess risks, anticipate issues, overcome technical obstacles, make difficult trade-off decisions, and balance business needs and technical constraints. In this role, you will interact with teams and leaders across Amazon. You will affect AWS growth directly and deliver major new capabilities for our customers. You will own and be responsible for defining and executing processes that deliver both savings and productivity for Amazon DynamoDB.

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Responsibilities

• Own capacity management, release coordination across different DynamoDB teams and building tracking mechanisms to improve operations of various services.
• Live for metrics, benchmarking, and planning.
• Deliver results in any given system, and looking to solve complex problems.
• Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, analysts, and program managers to achieve organizational goals.
• Encourage others to tackle hard problems.
• Give customers what they want: fast and predictable database performance at any scale.
• Design and deliver new features in front end services areas.
• Collaborate with product teams to design solutions that make efficient use of resources and technologies.
• Develop schedules that ensure timely launches.
• Assess risks, anticipate issues, overcome technical obstacles, make difficult trade-off decisions, and balance business needs and technical constraints.
• Interact with teams and leaders across Amazon.
• Affect AWS growth directly and deliver major new capabilities for our customers.
• Define and execute processes that deliver both savings and productivity for Amazon DynamoDB.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed