Technical Program Manager, AWS Worldwide Public Sector Engineering (WWPSE)

This is a role for someone who wants to own outcomes not just track them. Youll embed directly with the sales leaders who own a public sector market working backwards from their top priorities to decide where engineering can change the outcome - and getting a high-caliber engineering team into the room early before problems become escalations. Its a seat with real access: youll build trusted relationships with senior sales and solution leaders shape what gets built and see your work accelerate how governments healthcare and research organizations educational institutions and mission-critical agencies adopt the cloud and AI.

What sets this role apart:
- You partner upstream with the leaders who own a market - working backwards from their biggest priorities rather than waiting for work to be handed down.
- You own engineering engagements end-to-end - from deciding whats worth building through delivery to handing a finished solution off to the customer or partner who will run with it.
- You work at the intersection of Sales Solution Architecture and Engineering and youre the one who drives where engineering capacity creates the most impact.
- You measure success by scaled impact - solutions that many customers can reuse - not one-off projects.
- Youll co-build alongside AWS service teams and partners on problems that genuinely cant be solved any other way using AI both to accelerate how we build and to deliver AI-powered solutions to customers.
If youre customer obsessed comfortable with ambiguity and energized by turning this cant be done into heres how we did it wed love to talk.

Key job responsibilities
- Anticipate where your vertical is heading and shape strategy getting engineering involved early where it makes the biggest difference - including where AI is the critical path
- Own the qualification mechanism that drives which opportunities receive engineering investment weighing scale reuse complexity time-to-impact and delivery risk
- Set and apply the bar that qualifies an engagement - scalability reusability multi-customer applicability force-multiplier potential - and make the hard calls on those that dont clear it
- Work side by side with engineers through the build making the architecture scoping and tradeoff decisions that determine success - you own the technical outcome not just the schedule
- Drive co-build execution with AWS Service Teams and Partners applying AI to accelerate delivery and create reusable patterns that benefit many customers
- Own delivery end-to-end from qualification through transfer resolving technical and cross-team ambiguity without escalation
- Keep leadership current on investments outcomes and realized impact
- Influence peers and partner teams and mentor less-experienced engineers and program managers

About the team
AWS Worldwide Public Sector Engineering (WWPSE) is a field-deployed engineering and AI team that unblocks top public sector priorities - helping partners scale reinforcing AWS Service Teams and building solutions that endure.

Youll be an embedded engineering lead in one of our verticals - US Federal (FedFin FedCiv) Healthcare & Life Sciences or State/Local Government & Education - working across Sales Solution Architecture and Engineering and applying AI to how we build and what we deliver.

This is a hands-on delivery role not a coordination one: youre in the build with engineers making the technical calls accountable for the outcome.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

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Work/Life Balance
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- 4 years of technical product or program management experience
- 4 years of software development experience
- 4 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
- Experience with Cloud platforms (preferably AWS) database systems (SQL and NoSQL) AI tools for development productivity contributing to open-source projects and/or version control systems
- Experience working cross-functionally and driving decision making among stakeholders with competing goals

- 4 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience in the public sector
- Experience in co-build or joint development models with service teams ISV partners or SI partners
- Experience qualifying and prioritizing engineering investments based on scale potential and business impact (vs. bespoke single-customer delivery)
- Familiarity with engineer capacity planning portfolio prioritization frameworks and deployable unit-style resource allocation models
- Experience surfacing technical impact through business metrics and sales operating rhythms

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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 VA Arlington - 127100.00 - 172000.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 127100.00 - 172000.00 USD annually