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Senior Technical Program Manager, Government Compliance
Amazon.comUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Jun 2023
About the role
We are looking for a highly motivated Technical Program Manager to join our AWS Government Compliance Team. As part of the team, you will own the strategy, design and operation of key mechanisms, processes and programs enabling our Audit and Authorizations team onboard AWS services to government compliance programs (e.g. FedRAMP, DoD) at scale.
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 facilitates our ability to grow and scale our internal compliance processes and mechanisms to meet the compliance and regulatory expectations in the US Public Sector Market.
You should be an experienced TPM who 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 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.
A day in the life
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth as a passionate learner that is motivated to take on challenges.
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well balanced life—both in and outside of work.
#SecurityAssurance
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 facilitates our ability to grow and scale our internal compliance processes and mechanisms to meet the compliance and regulatory expectations in the US Public Sector Market.
You should be an experienced TPM who 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 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.
A day in the life
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring. We care about your career growth as a passionate learner that is motivated to take on challenges.
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well balanced life—both in and outside of work.
#SecurityAssurance
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
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
- Ability to take large, complex projects/problems and break them up into pieces, with deep technical, leadership, and program management expertise
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s
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