Technical Program Manager, AWS Worldwide Public Sector Engineering (WWPSE)

What Sets This Role Apart

• You partner upstream with the leaders who own a market - working backwards from their biggest priorities rather than waiting for work to be handed down.
• You own engineering engagements end-to-end - from deciding what's worth building, through delivery, to handing a finished solution off to the customer or partner who will run with it.
• You work at the intersection of Sales, Solution Architecture, and Engineering, and you're the one who drives where engineering capacity creates the most impact.
• You measure success by scaled impact - solutions that many customers can reuse - not one-off projects.
• You'll co-build alongside AWS service teams and partners on problems that genuinely can't be solved any other way, using AI both to accelerate how we build and to deliver AI-powered solutions to customers.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Anticipate where your vertical is heading and shape strategy, getting engineering involved early where it makes the biggest difference - including where AI is the critical path
• Own the qualification mechanism that drives which opportunities receive engineering investment, weighing scale, reuse, complexity, time-to-impact, and delivery risk
• Set and apply the bar that qualifies an engagement - scalability, reusability, multi-customer applicability, force-multiplier potential - and make the hard calls on those that don't clear it
• Work side by side with engineers through the build, making the architecture, scoping, and tradeoff decisions that determine success - you own the technical outcome, not just the schedule
• Drive co-build execution with AWS Service Teams and Partners, applying AI to accelerate delivery and create reusable patterns that benefit many customers
• Own delivery end-to-end from qualification through transfer, resolving technical and cross-team ambiguity without escalation
• Keep leadership current on investments, outcomes, and realized impact
• Influence peers and partner teams, and mentor less-experienced engineers and program managers

About the Team

AWS Worldwide Public Sector Engineering (WWPSE) is a field-deployed engineering and AI team that unblocks top public sector priorities - helping partners scale, reinforcing AWS Service Teams, and building solutions that endure. You'll be an embedded engineering lead in one of our verticals - US Federal (FedFin, FedCiv), Healthcare & Life Sciences, or State/Local Government & Education - working across Sales, Solution Architecture, and Engineering, and applying AI to how we build and what we deliver. This is a hands-on delivery role, not a coordination one: you're in the build with engineers, making the technical calls, accountable for the outcome.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 4+ years of software development experience
• 4+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience with Cloud platforms (preferably AWS), database systems (SQL and NoSQL), AI tools for development productivity, contributing to open-source projects, and/or version control systems
• Experience working cross-functionally and driving decision making among stakeholders with competing goals

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• Experience in the public sector
• Experience in co-build or joint development models with service teams, ISV partners, or SI partners
• Experience qualifying and prioritizing engineering investments based on scale potential and business impact (vs. bespoke, single-customer delivery)
• Familiarity with engineer capacity planning, portfolio prioritization frameworks, and deployable unit-style resource allocation models
• Experience surfacing technical impact through business metrics and sales operating rhythms

Pay

Base salary range: $127,100 - $172,000 USD annually (Arlington, VA and Herndon, VA locations). Total compensation includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation determined by experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for Supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

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