Amazon
Senior Technical Program Manager, Compliance Remediation
Amazon, Herndon, Virginia, United States, 22070
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.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of technical product or program management experience
3+ years of software development experience
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, other related fields, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
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
Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering
Ability to take large, complex projects/problems and break them up into pieces, with deep technical, leadership, and program management expertise
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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.
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of technical product or program management experience
3+ years of software development experience
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, other related fields, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
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
Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering
Ability to take large, complex projects/problems and break them up into pieces, with deep technical, leadership, and program management expertise
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.