Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Reliability and Quality (IRQ)

Amazon • Herndon, VA

5d • $127,100 - $172,000 • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring customers have continuous access to the innovation they rely on. The Data Center Infrastructure Reliability and Quality (IRQ) Team specifically focuses on the quality and reliability of critical infrastructure equipment throughout its lifecycle. This includes leading Design for Reliability (DFR) and Design for Quality (DFQ) efforts for new product development, identifying systemic equipment issues in the existing fleet, and driving root cause analysis and corrective actions. The Technical Program Manager for Quality and Reliability for Mechanical and Power Generation Products will lead multi-discipline technical program teams, drive quality and reliability initiatives in a complex engineering environment, and manage data center infrastructure technologies such as HVAC, power distribution systems, and security devices. This role involves generating enhanced reporting, meaningful KPIs, and process/automation improvements to ensure team efficiency and visibility to stakeholders and leadership. The TPM will partner with other engineering, purchasing, and project execution teams, make strategic decisions, connect long-term strategies with AWS's rapid growth, and guide operational needs. The role requires identifying and communicating risks, issues, and bottlenecks, and resolving them across departmental boundaries. Strong organizational, communication, and team-building skills are essential for fostering robust working relationships.

Requirements

• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in highly technical engineering roles in quality, design, or reliability for mechanical products.
• 5+ years of technical program management experience.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
• Lean Six Sigma Experience.
• Experience building and managing program-level dashboards and reporting, with proficiency in tools such as Smartsheet, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end quality and reliability programs for mission-critical mechanical and power generation products at AWS data centers.
• Orchestrate complex product strategies, own program-level metrics, and executive reporting.
• Build compelling cases for internal and external leadership where both speed and quality are non-negotiable.
• Own and execute end-to-end quality and reliability qualification and sustaining programs for highly complex, mission-critical mechanical and power generation products.
• Learn and understand the AWS data center lifecycle specific to Data Center Engineering, globally.
• Project manage the IRQ Engineering NPD portfolio across scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, risk, and reporting.
• Interface with Quality and Reliability Engineering teams to promote and standardize work-product inputs/outputs globally.
• Sync with TPMs and Product Managers to align reliability and quality deliverables to major NPD program milestones.
• Develop technical reliability and quality evaluation plans for mechanical and power generation product portfolios with engineering teams.
• Work with external partners (reliability labs, OEMs, CMFs) to facilitate testing, qualification, and analysis.
• Own product reliability and quality readiness at each NPD gate.
• Own supplier readiness for NPDs.
• Estimate and manage budget requirements per project; work with NPD teams to allocate resources.
• Manage project timelines and report progress bi-weekly to executive leadership and key partners.
• Build and present program-level metrics and status to executives on a regular cadence.
• Develop business cases to align internal and external leadership on the most effective path for quality and reliability program management.
• Drive internal team members and remove roadblocks for product qualification.
• Build strong end-to-end team processes and mechanisms.

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: Senior