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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Technical Program Manager, AWS Ground Station,... - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Denver, CO, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $148,700.0 - $201,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Code Review, Software Architecture, Information Technology - **Published:** May 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g049vx ## About the Role Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent - 5+ years of technical product or program management experience - 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience - 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience - Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules Preferred Qualifications - Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering - Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership - Experience with network, system, or software architecture - Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders - Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients - Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above ## Description In this role you will: - Work across the product, program, engineering, hardware, software, and infrastructure teams to manage requirements, scope, and delivery of worldwide AWS Ground Station features and locations. - Represent the service architecture and technical needs across Amazon including spectrum licensing. - Assess risks, anticipate issues, overcome technical obstacles, and make difficult trade-off decisions while managing cost and schedule to drive deployment goals and meet our customer commitments. Successful candidates will have a strong technical background, be detail oriented, and have excellent problem-solving abilities. You will represent program status to senior leadership. Your program management expertise and operational excellence will influence teams' decisions and drive secure and scalable solutions. You should be passionate about delivering great customer experiences and changing the way satellite operators communicate with their spacecraft. Builders at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end-to-end, and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. Join a team of super smart, customer obsessed builders that think big and have fun. A day in the life In this role, you will own the planning and execution of a new service managing cross-team and cross-org development and delivery, participating in architecture decisions, design reviews, and represent our service to Senior and Executive leadership. You will work with software developers and networking engineers along with product managers and other oranizations to deliver new services and new features create the best in class solutions for our customers worldwide! Candidates must be comfortable with ambiguity and eager to embrace ownership and accountability. About the team Why AWS? Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. 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