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At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. At AWS' scale, we invent new ways to provide the highest level of assurance to our security conscious customers. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for demonstrating the security controls of services offered by AWS. The Security Assurance Engineering team’s mission is to build and enhance mechanisms to continuously demonstrate that AWS meets and exceeds the high security and compliance bar expected by our customers. We achieve this by pro-active engagement of service/control owners to identify, monitor and drive remediation of risks, enabling AWS to meet various security and compliance requirements. The team also builds tools and services that enable us to scale, create efficiencies for our teams and transparency for our customers.

We are looking for a talented Technical Program Manager to help manage an internal change and account management program to ensure the effective evaluation and oversight of our IT systems and processes. A successful candidate will have a strong security and compliance background. They will have an ability to manage aspects of a major program requiring reporting to auditors/regulators while remediating findings and issues discovered across AWS engineering teams. They will have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Key job responsibilities

The Technical Program Manager will be responsible for the following:

• Draft narratives providing leadership awareness of upcoming issues and recommended solutions

• Track projects including resources, priorities, milestones, dependencies, and status.

• Run operational campaigns to ensure that AWS stays compliant with relevant regulations

• Walkthrough operations and control status to external auditors

• Report status and metrics to Security Assurance Leadership

• Vet new control requirements from audit liaisons

• Coordinate with engineering teams to migrate key metadata for ingestion into GRC tooling

• Identify areas of improvements to reduce touchpoints for engineering teams and reduce risk of non-compliance

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

• 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

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

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.