Amazon Hiring Webstore Technical Program Manager In Hyderabad ! Jobs In Hyderabad

Amazon Hiring Webstore Technical Program Manager In Hyderabad ! Jobs In Hyderabad

Company : Amazon India

Location :  Hyderabad

Qualification : Masters in computer science, Engineering or a Related Technical Discipline

Experience : 4 Years

Salary    :  Not Mentioned

Posted Date  : 26-01-2013


Job Description :  Webstore Technical Program Manager

Amazon Webstore is looking for an energetic, focused and skilled Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead programs within the Amazon Webstore, an integral part of Amazon's seller business. Amazon Webstore provides a differentiated ecommerce product that makes it fast, simple and low cost for companies to sell online, while leveraging the capabilities of Amazon's marketplace, fulfillment services, and secure, scalable infrastructure. Amazon Webstore powers businesses ranging from well-known brands and retailers, such as Samsonite, Lacoste, Fruit of the Loom, to the websites of tens of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses.

If you are a Technical Program Manager with a creative flare, strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, ability to influence business and technical leaders in a dynamic environment and the desire to be an individual contributor to Amazon's next generation technology, we want to talk with you. Joining our team provides the unique challenge and opportunity to build software systems that benefit millions of guests and interacts with merchants spanning the globe. The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary program / project management, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, and a passion for creating reliable and maintainable systems. The candidate should be open to new challenges, extremely good at multi-tasking, innovative, creative, self-directed and a great team player. Candidate should drive continuous process improvement, and collaborate effectively with aggressive cross-functional business and software development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage customer expectations and resolve conflicts that balance seller, buyer, and service team needs.
• In an agile environment, drive the entire product lifecycle: requirements definition through specification, design, coding, quality assurance, implementation, integration, launch, and production support with seller and buyer usability in mind.
• Synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines. This will include writing detailed functional and test specification, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features.
• Understand service interdependencies and drive towards technical solutions for multi-tiered systems
• Clarify, prioritize and drive project commitments as well as establish and maintain clear chains of accountability
• Address bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and encourage risk-taking behavior to maximize business benefit
• Tackle configuration and debugging tasks through issue isolation and deductive reasoning
• Mentor junior employees and build effective teams

Candidate Profile:

Successful candidates will have the opportunities to work as part of a team to expand the Amazon WebStore platform in several ground-breaking areas. The TPM will interact with a broad cross section of the Amazon organization spanning a wide range of technologies.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years industry experience as a program manager within a technology environment, with a progressive record of successful delivery of complex software systems.
• Prior experience as a software engineering, or software tester.
• Familiarity with web services, multi-tiered systems, workflow modeling and enterprise application integration.
• Bachelors or Masters in computer science, engineering or a related technical discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• An entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to drive innovation independently
• Passion to make things better at every opportunity
• Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of business and technical leadership
• Mastery of software processes (development, configuration, testing, and deployment) is critical in this role.
• Ability to able to credibly coordinate between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills are essential.
• Ideal candidate will have exposure to Service Oriented Architectures, Java.
• JavaScript, perl/Mason and Ajax are a plus.
• Detail oriented, yet able to look at a wide array of choices & identify what truly matters, problem solving skills is a must.
• Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer