Shape the future of secure communications for the world's most critical missions. As a Principal Technical Program Manager for SCS TEMEG, you'll define the strategy and lead customers and cross-functional teams to solve problems of high ambiguity and high impact.
Secure Connections Services (SCS), Tactical Edge Mission Engineering Group (TEMEG) designs, develops, and delivers emerging edge capabilities to enable the use of AWS services.
You own the strategic roadmap and drive cross-organizational alignment on priorities and delivery. You leverage deep technical expertise and executive-level stakeholder management to deliver solutions from concept through customer adoption. You bring proven experience architecting large-scale distributed systems and apply that expertise to commercial and government customers. You are data- and metric-driven, and relentlessly focused on performance in resource-constrained environments.
- Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize satellite connectivity in the cloud
- Work for a recognized leader in supporting space customers with cloud computing
- Have direct impact on hundreds, possibly thousands, of users of the AWS secure connections ecosystem.
If you're driven to lead at the intersection of security innovation and mission-critical impact, this is the role for you.
If Arlington, VA (Arlington HQ2):
This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.
By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.
This position requires that the candidate selected must be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Serve as the primary executive interface with customers, translating mission-critical requirements into product roadmap priorities for engineering teams
- Drive cross-organizational alignment across product, engineering, sales, and partner teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Work across the product, program, engineering, hardware, software, and infrastructure teams to manage requirements, scope, and delivery of worldwide AWS security features and services
- Assess risks, anticipate issues, overcome technical obstacles, and make difficult trade-off decisions while managing cost and schedule to drive adoption goals and meet our customer commitments.
Successful candidates will have a strong technical background, be detail oriented, and have excellent problem-solving abilities. You will represent program status to senior leadership. Your program management expertise and operational excellence will influence teams’ decisions and drive secure and scalable solutions. You should be passionate about delivering great customer experiences and changing the way customers leverage AWS services.
Builders at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end-to-end, and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. Join a team of super smart, customer obsessed builders that think big and have fun.
A day in the life
In this role, you will own the planning and execution of a new service managing cross-team and cross-org development and delivery, participating in architecture decisions, design reviews, and represent our service to Senior and Executive leadership. You will work with software developers and networking engineers along with product managers and other oranizations to deliver new services and new features create the best in class solutions for our customers worldwide!
Candidates must be comfortable with ambiguity and eager to embrace ownership and accountability.
About the team
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Why AWS?
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ 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
- 7+ years of professional or military experience
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above
Preferred Qualifications:
- 12+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience in security of web services, video content protection technologies, cryptography, network security protocols and operating system security
- Experience working with and influencing senior level stakeholders
- Experience with network, system, or software architecture
- Experience communicating technical details verbally and in writing
- Experience influencing innovation through a partner ecosystem with either solutions or programs that have demonstrated success at enterprise customers
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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