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.
- If you're customer obsessed, comfortable with ambiguity, and energized by turning "this can't be done" into "here's how we did it," we'd love to talk.
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
- USA, VA, Arlington: $127,100.00 - $172,000.00 USD annually
- USA, VA, Herndon: $127,100.00 - $172,000.00 USD annually
- 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.
Benefits
Amazon 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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