Senior Technical Program Manager

Who you are

• Experience in technical product or program management
• Experience working directly with engineering teams
• Experience in software development
• Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
• 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
• Experience with virtualization, orchestration and cloud computing (eg. Hypervisors, VMware, Xen)
• Experience in capacity planning, operations planning, business analysis or equivalent

What the job involves

• We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to own programs that directly shape the reliability, performance, security, and economics of this foundational infrastructure
• You will create scope in ambiguous problem spaces, influence engineering and business decisions at the senior leadership level, and drive cross-organizational alignment across multiple engineering teams
• You will work at the rare intersection of hardware and software — spanning the Nitro System, processor platform roadmaps, fleet modernization, and customer-facing capacity commitments — with visibility to the highest levels of the company
• This role is based in Berlin, one of Amazon's largest engineering hubs in Europe
• EC2 Core Compute is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry
• As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services
• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs from concept through fleet-wide deployment across compute platform instance families including C, M, R, X, Flex, and T
• Own Nitro System programs spanning hypervisor evolution, virtualization enhancements, confidential computing, and security hardening initiatives
• Track customer commitments and capacity forecasting for large-scale workloads, working with customer-facing teams to ensure the right capacity is available
• Drive operational improvement programs that reduce toil and improve fleet sustainability at massive global scale
• Respond to emergent and unplanned activities with speed and rigor, mobilizing cross-functional teams as needed
• Build strategic roadmaps, synthesize technical and business tradeoffs into clear recommendations, and present to senior leadership
• Influence without direct authority across engineering, product, supply chain, and finance organizations
• Collaborate cross-timezone with US-based teams from Berlin