Senior Technical Program Manager - eCommerce - IIM

Senior Technical Program Manager

Amazon' Profile

We build software to find products not already sold on Amazon and algorithmically add them to the Amazon catalog. Our work involves building state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) infrastructure, extracting structured-data from unstructured-content, automatic item classification, storage systems to hold the massive catalog and distributed systems of cloud-scale. Successful candidates for this position must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done.

Job Description:

- 12 - 16 Years of experience. Any Engineering Manager / Development Manager / Technical Manager from any product company will fit for this role

Technical:

- Very strong in Design(High and low level), Technical deep dive and development areas (should be from C++, java background - NO BI/ELT side of experience )

- Should be good in - Design, Coding and Management skills

- Program management - Strong in program management, Product Management, Project management

Qualification: Should BE/Btech - ME / Mtech (IIM's)

- The ideal candidate will be strong on program management and will be comfortable in interacting with a number of technical and non-technical stakeholders. In addition, the ability to work backwards and think about the program from a customer perspective is crucial.

- This opportunity requires excellent problem-solving and communication skills. The successful candidate will find practical and simple solutions to complicated problems without sacrificing quality or core functionality.

You must be able to:

- Interact with Project Sponsors, other Technical Program Managers, and multiple development teams to define and deliver complex cross-functional projects.

- Run in front of the software development team, helping define user stories, research appropriate technical solutions, and provide guidance to the team regarding architecture, design, and priorities.

- Build and maintain a complete project schedule, make it constantly visible to management and key stakeholders, and drive it through to completion.

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.

- Engage with [many] other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals.

- Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.

- Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

- A successful candidate will have a strong software development background, excellent problem solving, project management, and communication skills.

- The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field (e.g. computer science, engineering).

- 10 or more years of relevant work experience in a software development with 5+ years as technical contributor (software development engineering) and 5+ years of technical leadership, and project management roles.

- Experience in managing and delivering large cross-functional projects.

- Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects

- Experience with business applications such as Word, Excel and Project.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong knowledge on current web technologies.

- Experience with agile methodologies.

- Experience in Unix/Linux environments, distributed systems and/or developing large scale web applications.