Technical Infrastructure Program Manager , IT Services - CIS

Amazon • Vancouver, BC

4d • CA$97,600 - CA$163,000

About The Position

Are you interested in a challenge that will reward your unique blend of business and technology skills? Are you excited by the opportunity to be central in addressing significant business-impacting processes and products? Do you enjoy the challenge and ownership that comes from delivering large, cross-functional, IT projects? As a Technical Infrastructure Program Manager (TIPM) for IT Services, you will have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in the future of IT Services. As a Technical Infrastructure Program Manager, you will be the glue between stakeholders to ensure our customers receive the right outcomes that drive customer obsessed security. As a Technical Program Manager for the IT Services organization, you will facilitate the transition of critical IT Services used by our customers to an externalized network platform that has no reliance on a traditional private corporate style network. In this role you will be the primary point of contact for the assigned services to align customer technical requirements to the business strategy by working cross functionally in AWS. This role requires senior program and project management experience, as customer engagement, stakeholder management and effective communication is critical. This role requires you to have effective written and verbal skills as this program has director and VP level visibility. As a TPM you will ensure projects in the program are being scoped, planned, delivered and closed in line with the agreed success measures, budget, schedule and quality. This will require you to partner with service owners and operators to determine the right business outcomes.

Requirements

• 3+ years of technical infrastructure management experience
• Knowledge of best practices and emerging technologies, related to infrastructure (i.e. network, data center, hardware, software)
• Experience with varying scenarios of infrastructure builds
• 2+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
• 2+ Years’ Experience of Managing Enterprise Level Infrastructure and AV Services [Support, Design, Hardware Deployment]
• 2+ Years’ Experience of managing cross-functional Infrastructure and AV projects.
• Excellent project and program management skills
• Thrive in the face of ambiguity and not be deterred to address and prioritize multiple projects.
• Understand strategic initiatives and drive them to a successful conclusion.
• Build trusting relationships allowing you to own and drive programs.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical, written and presentation skills.
• Experience with detailed project planning, reporting, risk management and measurement.
• Strong multi-tasking and influencing skills
• Excellent organization, analytical, quantitative, and presentation skills
• Strong bias for action and "get it done" attitude
• Flexibility to travel, both domestically and internationally, and work within global time zones

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of project/program management experience
• Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
• Experience in project management including resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status and prioritizing own tasks and those of other team members for multiple projects
• Experience working in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional organization
• Experience with information security, relational databases and cloud computing.

Responsibilities

• Manage and own complex projects having enterprise wide impact.
• Establish the forward looking strategy and gain support for implementation.
• Conduct pre-project requirement gathering, scoping, project approval, planning, oversee delivery and verification of strategic goals.
• Develop gap analysis, functional specifications, project schedules and milestones.
• Work with stakeholders to identify resources, assemble project teams, and assign responsibilities.
• Assess costs, benefits and risks, plus identify and respond to risks and high-priority issues rapidly and effectively through effective action and appropriate escalation.
• Balance business needs with technical and security requirements.
• Clearly communicate goals, responsibilities, issues and status to customers and senior managers.
• Lead and streamline the transition of IT Services in to production.
• Ensure changes are effectively released ensuring feedback mechanisms are established.
• Build effective relationships with stakeholder and service owners.
• Publish accurate and concise reports on time to maintain visibility and accountability.
• Own the identification, scoping, and delivery strategy for the Infrastructure and AV solutions in Amazon offices.
• Own projects and initiatives having regional impact, including project schedules and milestones.
• Effectively manage stakeholders to successfully deliver the agreed scope.
• Understand and identify technical obstacles to successfully deliver the designed architecture, identify and mitigate risks.
• Assess costs and benefits and maintain financial reporting control.
• Manage escalation, anticipate and make tradeoffs and balance business needs with technical constraints.
• Clearly communicate project and program status, responsibilities and issues to stakeholders.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• paid time off
• other resources to improve health and well-being

What This Job Offers

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