Technical Program Manager, Transportation Financial Systems

This job is with Amazon, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.DESCRIPTION: Transportation Financial Systems (TFS) team is looking for a talented and highly motivated Technical Program Manager (TPM) who enjoy solving challenging and complex business problems at Amazon scale.Key job responsibilities The right candidate will possess a strong program management background, has experience leading large projects, and has a well-rounded technical background in current technologies. As a Technical Program Manager, your responsibilities will include writing specifications, driving project schedules from design to release, stakeholder management and managing the production launch. You will act as a Single Threaded Owner (STO) to lead and coordinate the design and implementation efforts, coordinating across multiple engineering teams to develop scalable solutions. You will work directly with customers, disambiguate the requirements, anticipate bottlenecks and risks, make trade-offs, provide escalation management and balance the business needs versus technical constraints. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, destroy limits to scale, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives while rolling up your sleeves to get the job done. This role will require high judgement on how we can deliver for customers in both the short- and long-term.A day in the life TFS has over 200+ engineers, and 10+ product & program managers. Each TPM is responsible for delivering large to medium programs; working closely with clients and product, building transformation roadmaps to deliver long term benefits for our customers.About the team Transportation Financial Systems (TFS) platform owns the technology components that perform the financial activities for Amazon's transportation business. TFS systems are used across all Amazon's transportation programs and retail expansion to new geographies. The platform provide financial document creation & management, expense auditing, accounting, payments and cost allocation functions. Our new generation products are highly scalable and operate at finer level granularity to reconcile every dollar in transportation financial accounts with zero manual entries or corrections. The goal is to develop global product suite for all freight modes touching every single package movement across Amazon. Our mission is to abstract logistics complexities from financial world and financial complexities from logistics world. You will be part of one of the largest tech and program team with ~200 engineering organization with great growth and lateral opportunity. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: - 3+ years of technical product or program management experience - 2+ years of software development 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: - 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experienceOur 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.