Home Working With Us Jobs Students & Graduates Early Insights Contact Open Positions Open Positions › Snr Technical Program Manager - Global Talent Management (GTM) Snr Technical Program Manager - Global Talent Management (GTM) Job Description Global Talent Management (GTM) is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our engineering team in Edinburgh as part of a strategic investment to build technology that will enable Amazon to adopt the most scientific approach to talent advancement. GTM builds intelligent products and services that offer a consumer grade user experience and use science to manage talent development at Amazon by embracing our leadership principles culture. Our engineering teams include big data engineering, machine learning, micro-service software development, front-end software development, and user experience design. In GTM we are building the intelligence that will enable Amazon to retain its unique “Day One” company culture whilst growing its talent base in excess of 1 Million employees. As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will be helping coordinate multiple engineering, product- and program-management teams, responsible for the development of our product and services that implement our 3 year vision. You will be the face of the project to our internal customers and will own our requirements and delivery plans. You will join our community of engineers and technical program managers and contribute to defining and raising technical standards across the organization. You will work on Amazon’s hardest problems. You will exert technical vision and will build highly scalable, architecturally sound solutions that are aligned with our business needs. You will possess a unique blend of technical breadth and depth, paired with excellent communication and collaboration skills. Are you passionate about developing website architectures that scale and perform at high availability using AWS technologies? Do you have the customer obsession to build a highly available website experience to hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees? Come invent with us! Basic Qualifications Technical program management experience working directly with software engineering teams Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field. Experience in lieu of degree will also be considered. Excellent communication and writing skills. Significant software engineering experience in industry. Experience in a Technical Program Management role, with a proven track record of leading large scale projects. A proven track record in architecting and shipping innovative and highly scalable cloud systems in an agile environment. Exceptional communication skills. A proven track record of making good technical judgement. Excellent problem solving skills. Highly organized individual. Preferred Qualifications Masters Degree preferred. Experience with large scale distributed systems. Experience of building solutions using AWS technologies. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right to work in the UK, and successful background screening check. This will include previous employment verification, qualification verification (if relevant) and a basic criminal check. Further details of this policy/procedure will be sent to you along with your conditional offer. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Consult our Privacy Notice to know more about how we collect, use, and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Apply Share by email © 2021 Amazon Development Centre Scotland