Website Amazon
Position Summary:
This role will involve working across geographies and timezones, so some flexibility may be required. The right candidate possesses a strong technical background on software or IT infrastructure, effective written and verbal communication, program and project management experience. High judgement, ability to influence, and delivering results are essential to success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
Communication is key, both verbal and written. You will be engaging with engineers as well as senior leaders across AWS on a daily basis to deliver multiple large scale projects, facilitate large scale tradeoffs (backed by analyzed data to provide context) and presenting progress, decisions, direction back to your team, stakeholders and senior leaders
Required Education & Experience:
- 5+ years experience leading complex and/or large projects across multiple software development teams
- A technical background: you won’t be expected to write any code, but do need experience engaging on the details of the solutions which support the projects/products/services that you have delivered
- Analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and planning.
- Technical and Business acumen; able to understand and work with business and technology owners.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
- Experience in applying Agile and/or Lean software development.
- Problem solving ability.