Sr Technical Program Manager, Data Center Engineering

Amazon is hiring a Sr Technical Program Manager, Data Center Engineering in Seattle, United States. It pays $149k-$201k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Lead global data center maintenance and tooling initiatives as a Senior Technical Program Manager at AWS.

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At AWS, we're working to be the most customer centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, smart, and driven individual. The Data Center Maintenance & Tooling team works with the hundreds of AWS data centers around the globe to deliver the highest quality and lowest cost physical security, availability, capacity, and scaling results for our customers. Our aim is to standardize operations globally by delivering tools, policy, processes and procedures to our internal teams. The team is seeking a Sr Technical Program Manger to solve innovative problems via business process and technology innovations. They will be a highly visible leader that will own the communication, coordination, and execution of a multi-year program vision. Our mission is to provide critical data to operators and engineers that enables them to make informed decisions for maintenance of data center facilities. Our team of TPMs work with senior product and engineering leaders to define strategy and requirements. They design, coordinate, and execute technical solutions that scale globally. Managing numerous complex systems and organizations, they are expected to make appropriate trade-offs between business vs. technical constraints, clearly communicate goals, roles, and responsibilities. They also identify opportunities to converge overlapping technical efforts, and drive the long term strategy.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate is able to:
- Partner with engineering leaders from product discovery through delivery and post launch iteration to gather feedback, and improve collaboration and engagement in service of delivering the right solution to AWS customers
- Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases
- Effectively interact and collaborate with Customers, Project Sponsors, Technical Program Managers and multiple internal teams to define and deliver complex solutions
- Proactively recognize and drive opportunities to simplify processes
- Contribute to and influence technical designs
- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities
- Lead the effective and efficient delivery of large, complex technical projects and programs
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs with technical constraints
- Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
- Monitor the results of product launches, evangelism activities and marketing campaigns to reach target audiences effectively.
- Travel up to 25%

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also 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.

USA, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually

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Key facts

Sr Technical Program Manager, Data Center Engineering is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $149k-$201k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on August 5, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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