Technical Program Manager, Payments Services

Job Description

Job summaryTechnical Program Manager, Amazon PaymentsAmazon Payments is looking for super star TPM to join the team. You will get an opportunity to influence Amazon technical architecture across multiple Directors, establish and own a roadmap. This role requires working with product team to define strategy and requirements, and lead cross functional development teams from design through delivery. You will be accountable for driving the entire product lifecycle, from product definition through specification, coding, quality assurance and launch to the world. This position involves regular communication with senior management (multiple director and VPs) on status, risks and change control. Cross-team coordination, agile project management and executive presentation skills are essential.The ideal candidate is a creative, demonstrated leader/manager with superior analytical abilities. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills. The candidate is not just a policy maker/spokesperson but drives to get the right things done. At the core of the position is delivery.Qualified candidates have experience defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets as well as analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization.Knowledge of the following is required service-oriented architecture, product development (including Java, XML, messaging protocols, and Web Services), build processes, agile project management, release schedules. The ideal candidate will have 8 or more years of relevant work experience in internet-related project and/or technical product management in a software applications environment. An undergraduate degree in software-product management, computer science, or equivalent experience is required. Payments experience is a bonus.Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.,
• 5+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• 2+ years of technical program management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
The ideal candidate for this position will have the following qualifications and must be able to:
• Interact with Project Sponsors, Project Stakeholders and multiple business and technical teams to define and deliver complex features
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs
• Plan and manage multiple parallel projects
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
• Be the glue that is able to understand, plan, and manage the cross-team interdependencies for complex systems
• Apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for projects based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches
• A solid CS foundation including at least 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role, and good knowledge of OOAD, scalability issues and multi-tiered solutions.
• Solid experience and track record of successful system implementations utilizing multiple project management methodologies, tools and techniques.
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross functional, projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This includes excellent listening skills, concise communications and targeting the message to specific audiences.

Keyskills :
documentationmanagementagilesoftware development life cycleprogram management