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Senior Technical Program Manager, Compliance Remediation

Amazon

Amazon

Marketing & Communications, IT, Legal, Operations
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Oct 11, 2024

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for diving deep into industry requirements, maintaining regulatory and security requirements, and establish strategies to meet current and upcoming customer and regulatory security needs. At AWS scale, we hire experienced builders to design and operate scalable mechanisms to provide the highest level of assurance to our most regulatory conscious customers.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager to join our Compliance Remediation team. As part of the team, you will own the workstreams critical to our continual adherence to domestic and global AWS compliance programs.

Our team solves complex compliance challenges, dives deep into compliance requirements for both AWS and our customers, improves processes, and drives greater efficiencies in meeting expectations. This role drives technical solutions and updates across AWS to adhere to ever increasing and evolving security needs.

You should be an experienced TPM who has a sound understanding of security engineering, programming, and an ability to understand IT and compliance processes, evaluate opportunities for improvement, and to be able to drive innovative campaigns across organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities
Defining, scoping, and managing the delivery of security engineering focused projects and campaigns from ideation with excellent project management skills

Diving deep into the operations of AWS compliance programs to develop broad domain and technical understanding of regulatory and customer expectations and requirements to drive process improvement initiatives

Evaluating the efficacy of regulatory program activities and leading improvements to enable delivery at scale

Anticipating bottlenecks and provide escalation management (evaluating trade-offs, dependencies across teams, and making recommendations to stakeholders/leadership while balancing the business needs/commitments with technical constraints)

Setting and embodying team culture and the quality bar, driving cross-team alignment by negotiating and resolving conflict smoothly with our without formal authority

Driving timely and transparent communication and reporting on progress on key deliverables, priorities, goals, and issues across the team and stakeholders

Managing emergent tasks against multiple shifting priorities, mitigating risks, and eliminating blockers

Leading collaborations on cross-team engagements and advising on challenging business goals

Bridge communication with both technical engineering and business teams to connect business requirements with development roadmaps, guiding strategy and negotiating design

Operate a quality rhythm of the business, continuously coordinating and driving adoption of improvement efforts to manage regulatory expectations

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.