Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in Cloud Computing. Our web services provide a platform for IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 500 companies.
AWS Data Services group provides rapidly growing, industry acclaimed cloud services in areas of big data platforms, data analytics and operational databases. The group is at the forefront of innovation in these areas producing world-class cloud services such as EMR, Redshift, RDS Aurora, Glue, Lakeformation and many more.

The Team:
AWS Glue is a fully managed service offering next-generation data management and transformation solution layered on top of Serverless, FastData, ML and Analytics. AWS Glue simplifies and automates the difficult and time consuming data discovery, conversion, mapping, and job scheduling tasks at massive scale.

Top reasons to join our team:
* Be a catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive product while it is in infancy state.
* Solve unique and first-order problems in areas of Big Data, Spark, Distributed Systems, Serverless and Machine Learning
* Influence and build product that will leverage scale of resources to orchestrate data workflow
* Be part of big data revolution in cloud
* Grow leader in you to build revolutionary product and scale it to customers world wide.

A successful candidate will bring deep technical and management expertise, strong business acumen and judgment, ability to define visionary, agile implementation experience, desire to have an industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.

Some of the key job functions include
Work with key stakeholders in Business, Operations, Engineering, and Service/Development teams to ensure requirements are translated into actionable roadmaps.
Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and trade-offs against developer experience and time to market
Lead effective and efficient delivery of the large, complex projects, region expansions, operational excellence initiatives
Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the teams ability to meet business goals
Communicate regularly with senior management, stakeholders on status, risks and change control
Establish business processes and policies, as well as metrics and indicators for success
Drive engineering and integration decisions and timelines across multiple teams and organizations
Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities

Needed Skills and Abilities:
Influencer: Innovative leader with the ability to identify opportunities and influence organizations to gain support and overcome resistance with data and persuasion
Doer: Ability to successfully deliver end-to-end technology and operations projects, working through the many obstacles along the way
Communicator: Ability to communicate and gather expectations and requirements equally well with business and technology teams, and capacity to write well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own data analysis as necessary
Problem Solver: Ability to utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges

To be successful in this role, you can prioritize well, communicate effectively, and have a consistent track record of delivery. You are proactive in removing roadblocks, pave the way for innovation, and can handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You will be a positive influencer across diverse teams, be able to effectively rally support for your initiatives, and be able to help deeply technical teams create simple solutions to meet goals.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of experience working with engineering teams
3+ years of technical program management experience
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Bachelor's/ Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
Able to collect, analyze and present data sets support project goals and initiatives
3+ years of Technical Program Management, Project management experience in related field.
Customer centric orientation as evidenced by the quality and efficacy of products, services, and support delivered.
A creative problem solver who proactively seeks out system/process improvements in support of his/her customers
Experience defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets
Proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in program managing the development / support of large scale highly available and distributed systems
Technical Skills - Programming Languages (Java/Python/Ruby, etc.), Web technologies, Cloud/AWS
Exposure to software systems Architecture/Design
Track record of troubleshooting, simplifying, operational excellence and a focus on automation
Agile Principles, Values and Practices
Good data mining and analytical skills as well as proven process management skills.