Jobs at Amazon Web Services

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring to market innovative products and services.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduated less than 24 months ago or about to complete a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields at time of application
• Although no specific programming language is required – you should be familiar with the syntax of languages such as Java, C/C++, or Python
• Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving and complexity analysis.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Previous technical internship(s) if applicable
• Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Experience in optimization mathematics such as linear programming and nonlinear optimisation
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Adept at handling ambiguous or undefined problems as well as ability to think abstractly.

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Key job responsibilities

• Partner with senior stakeholders to build and execute programs and roadmaps to achieve business goals. This includes both shortand long-term horizons.
• Make trade-offs by considering the larger picture (e.g., customer experience, financial goals, compliance, legal, brand, public relations, process workflow dependencies, metrics, quality, efficiency, etc.).
• Partner with teams to secure resources, scope efforts, set project priorities and milestones, and drive delivery.
• Connect with key stakeholders regularly to review metrics and setup processes to ensure goals are met.
• Identify the gaps and pain points in the existing processes and drive improvements;
• Set up performance management mechanisms and track the partner performance on a day to day basis;
• Influence and negotiates resources and priorities
• Write reports/documents that detail the progress to leadership on a frequent basis
• Deep dive on issues and come up with solutions, creating solutions from scratch for short and long term
• Operate autonomously; drive forecasts, and handle escalations

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree
• Bachelor's degree
• Senior program or project management experience
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy, definition and end to end product delivery

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience leading process improvements
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams