DESCRIPTION

Our mission is to build and manage the foundational software of the Earth’s Biggest Catalog. Amazon’s Product Catalog is the substrate of the WW Stores business with broad impact on listing experience, shopping experience, physical stores, as well as end-to-end fulfillment operations. We offer data modeling and solution architecture for everything Amazon sells, every physical product, digital game, apps, prime video, alexa skills, home services, and powers entire businesses like Whole Foods, Amazon Pharmacy, Supply Chain by Amazon. Through these services, we enable millions of sellers and vendors to manage billions of products across Amazon's online marketplaces and physical stores world-wide in real-time. Leveraging highly scalable microservices, innovative new data models, unique big data solutions, and advanced machine learning algorithms, we produce a world-class, localized shopping experience for customers globally in their preferred language.
There is nothing else like it on the planet!

The catalog team is looking for a highly technical Senior Technical Program Manager to drive developer productivity, architecture simplification, and operational efficiency across our team. In this role, you will work closely with engineering managers, developers, and cross-functional partners to identify opportunities for improving processes, tools, infrastructure, and system architectures. You will be responsible for implementing initiatives that streamline development workflows, enhance collaboration, simplify complex architectures, and optimize operational processes.

As a TPM, you are empowered to:
- Interact directly with executive sponsors to define problems and deliver large scale cross-functional projects spanning many teams.
- Collaborate with engineering leaders to understand the team's challenges, pain points, and areas for optimization in the development lifecycle, system architectures, and operational processes
- Lead efforts to simplify complex system architectures and reduce technical debt, ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability
- Work closely with engineers and engineering leaders to gather feedback, understand their needs, and ensure that initiatives are aligned with their workflows and preferences
- Identify, assess and mitigate risks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs balancing the business needs versus constraints.
- Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders
- Evangelize best practices, share learnings, and promote a culture of continuous improvement, architectural simplicity, and operational excellence within the engineering organization.