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# Sr. Technical Program Manager, Open Data Analytics Engines

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** East Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $148,700.0 - $201,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Data Analysis, Apache HTTP Server, Application Release Automation, Open Data Protocol, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Delivery Pipeline, Apache Spark, AWS Glue, Serverless Computing, Amazon Elastic Mapreduce (EMR)
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E4E908C6A0294526AC3DD13AD92DEFAB/job/

## About the Role

* 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
 * 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
 * 3+ years of software development experience
 * 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
 * Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules, * 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
 * Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
 * Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

## Description

Amazon Web Services Open Data Analytics (ODA) organization is looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive cross-team programs spanning release infrastructure, query engine development, and datalake integrations across Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena.

ODA powers millions of clusters across all AWS regions, enabling customers to run massive-scale analytics using open-source frameworks like Apache Spark, Trino, Apache Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta. Our teams build the automated release pipelines that package and distribute production-ready releases across multiple deployment modes (EC2, EKS, Serverless), and develop the core query engine optimizations that deliver 5x+ performance improvements over open-source baselines.

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to coordinate complex, cross-cutting programs across our Release Automation (Fundamentals) and Engines teams. You will drive end-to-end delivery of programs that span release pipeline modernization, engine performance initiatives, open-source upstream integrations, and region expansion. You will manage dependencies across teams, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure that our engineering investments translate into measurable customer outcomes.

Key job responsibilities

Own and drive cross-team program execution for release automation, engine performance, and datalake integration initiatives spanning Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena.

Build and maintain integrated program schedules across the Fundamentals and Engines teams, tracking milestones, dependencies, and critical path items across release pipeline modernization, region expansion, and engine optimization workstreams.

Identify, assess, and mitigate risks that span team boundaries - escalating early when release pipeline issues threaten downstream engine delivery or when upstream open-source changes impact release timelines.

Define program metrics and mechanisms (WBRs, dashboards, program reviews) to measure release velocity, pipeline reliability, engine performance benchmarks, and operational toil reduction.

Drive region build programs end-to-end, coordinating infrastructure readiness, release validation, and service launch activities across multiple AWS regions and deployment modes (EC2, EKS, Serverless).

Coordinate open-source integration programs, ensuring that upstream contributions to Apache Spark, Trino, and Apache Iceberg are tracked, reviewed, and merged in alignment with internal release cadences.

Partner with engineering leaders to facilitate technical trade-off discussions, helping teams balance new capability development against reliability, security patching, and operational debt reduction.

Author and deliver written narratives (OP documents, business reviews, program status updates) to communicate progress, risks, and resource needs to senior leadership.

Drive continuous improvement in release processes by identifying bottlenecks, proposing automation opportunities, and establishing mechanisms that prevent recurring issues.