Technical Program Manager, Fleet Remediation Engineering

About the role

Fleet Remediation Engineering specializes in retrofit efforts that span several engineering disciplines and is applied across a variety of data center infrastructure designs. We align stakeholders to place a high focus on engineering design quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, and most ambiguous infrastructure retrofit efforts within the existing AWS data center community.

We are passionate about ensuring our latest innovations are implemented into our existing fleet to provide maximum benefit on behalf of our customers, and get our energy through challenge, innovation and design.

Requirements

• We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to support our data center retrofit programs that modernize and improve our extensive data center fleet.
• The TPM will lead cross functional and technical teams to drive projects from concept to requirements definition, feasibility assessments, designs, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• The TPM will develop the strategy for the retrofit of the existing data center fleet with the latest generation of mechanical & electrical products to meet the latest design standards.
• The TPM will lead initiatives associated with the global Fleet Remediation Engineering portfolio, developing or enhancing systems, tools, & mechanisms to streamline project delivery.

Key job responsibilities

• The ideal candidate will be an exceptionally strong communicator, both written and verbally, and possess experience in tactical project management of highly technical electrical engineering initiatives, as well as strategic program management.
• Experience in managing data center infrastructure deployments, R&D projects, and understanding of SQL data bases is a plus.
• A Bachelor's Degree or additional technical experience is required.
• Candidates possessing a background in architecture/design, electrical engineering, data center infrastructure/operations, and/or construction, who have transitioned to a program management discipline will have a distinct advantage.
• Candidate must be comfortable managing conceptual development efforts, remote project delivery teams, and possess the ability to facilitate technical whiteboard sessions to troubleshoot project or initiative implementation issues, and remove barriers to project or initiative success.
• Being able to evaluate project or initiative feasibility, create cross-functional matrix-based teams, establish trust with a variety of stakeholders across multiple time zones, eliminate non-value-add activity, design solutions, remove blockers, and find creative ways to accelerate project or initiative delivery is a must.
• The TPM will be fully competent in a variety of project management tools, methodologies and techniques for all phases of the project lifecycle and exhibit demonstrated proficiency in core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality and risk management, reporting and metric development/tracking.

Other requirements

• Proficiency with MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint and Smartsheet.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 3+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• Experience with roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules