About the company
Our partner is looking for a Technical Program Manager - AWS Cloud Infrastructure based in Canada. This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of concurrent AWS cloud infrastructure programs, managing scope, schedules, dependencies, budgets, and critical paths across engineering and partner teams.
- Coordinate cloud cost-optimization initiatives, tracking progress, reporting results, identifying risks, and proactively addressing obstacles to savings targets.
- Lead intake and prioritization processes, maintaining accurate roadmaps, priority documentation, dashboards, and program status information.
- Act as the central coordination point across technical and business teams, facilitating alignment, trade-off discussions, negotiations, and resolution of roadblocks.
- Partner closely with software engineers, engineering managers, and SREs to align execution with strategic objectives and support planning activities.
- Drive security and governance initiatives end-to-end, ensuring dependencies are managed and delivery remains on track.
- Develop reports, scorecards, and executive-ready dashboards that provide clear visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
- Build strong relationships across functional boundaries while promoting pragmatic problem-solving, accountability, and effective collaboration.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve program management processes and enable business innovation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in technical program or project management, ideally delivering complex, cross-team initiatives within cloud infrastructure or platform environments.
- Strong AWS expertise and a solid understanding of cloud-based solutions, infrastructure environments, and technology delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously from initiation through completion, with ownership of scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, and risk.
- Experience collaborating directly with software engineers, engineering managers, SREs, and other technical stakeholders to deliver outcomes aligned with a defined strategy.
- Strong critical-path and dependency management skills, including the ability to create complex delivery plans and proactively mitigate risks.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical and program information clearly to audiences ranging from engineering teams to executive leadership.
- Strong technical intuition and the ability to understand engineering challenges well enough to facilitate effective decisions and coordination.
- Experience with cloud platform, SaaS, cost-optimization, or operational-efficiency initiatives is an advantage.
- Familiarity with security and governance programs such as IAM, certification, logging, access elevation, and compliance frameworks such as SOX is a plus.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, provisioning, landing-zone initiatives, or cloud governance is desirable.
- Knowledge of product management principles, AI technologies, and AI-enabled tools that can support program management and operational efficiency is a plus.
Conditions
- Salary: CAD $111,000–$167,000 annual base salary, depending on skills, experience, and geographic location.
- Annual bonus: Potential eligibility for a discretionary cash bonus of up to 15% of base salary, based on individual and company performance.
- Remote work: Fully remote position for candidates based in British Columbia or Ontario, with occasional travel for team events, meetings, partnerships, or territory activities.
- Healthcare: Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Insurance: Life insurance and critical illness/AD&D coverage.
- Financial benefits: Health Care Spending Account, retirement savings programs, and potential eligibility for an equity plan.
- Time off: Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, personal time, wellness days, and paid parental leave.
- Employee support: Employee Assistance Program and additional wellbeing resources.
- Career development: Opportunities for professional growth and learning within a large, technology-driven organization.
- Work flexibility: Support for remote work and flexibility to accommodate occasional business needs outside standard working hours.