Senior TPM - Data Access Control, Privacy - Regulation Tech and Assurance

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Senior Technical Program
Manager (TPM) to join the Regulation Tech and Assurance team in the Amazon
Privacy org. We own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for
ensuring compliance with high-impact, urgent regulation across Amazon services
worldwide. The Senior TPM – Data Access Control will own three key pillars: 1)
act as the SME for how Amazon systems process customer personal data to deliver
unique customer experiences, 2) act as SME for Amazon data controls that protect
customer personal data, and 3) lead end-to-end technical design across
infrastructure and business teams and 4) drive implementation of technical tasks
while monitoring dependencies and reporting key risks, issues and blockers. The
Senior TPM will contribute to the strategic direction for Amazon’s privacy
practices while building/owning the compliance approach for individual
regulations such as Digital Markets Act (DMA). This will require helping to
frame, and participating in, high judgment debates and decision making across
senior business, technology, legal, and public policy leaders.

A great candidate will have a unique combination of experience with data
governance technology, high judgement in system architecture decisions and
ability to set detailed technical design from ambiguous compliance requirements.
You will drive foundational, cross-service decisions, set technical
requirements, oversee technical design, and have end to end accountability for
delivering technical changes across dozens of different systems. You will have
high engagement with WW senior leadership via quarterly reviews, annual
organizational planning, and s-team goal updates. The ideal candidate is an
experienced leader with a strong background in technical program
management/software engineering and a proven track record for delivering
technical innovation in ambiguous regulatory environments.

Requirements

• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical product or program management 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior engineers to map the origination, augmentation and destinations of customer data across systems.
• Lead high level and detailed technical design with senior engineers to create compliant and efficient architecture for enforcing user consent.
• Oversee scoping and funding of technical resources required to deliver the technical design across teams.
• Drive implementation of technical tasks, monitoring key dependencies and reporting risks/issues/blockers.
• Own a broad scope and plenty of opportunity to influence technical direction across Amazon business and engineering teams.
• Act as single threaded tech lead accountable for understanding and leading end to end data flows from origin through destination.
• Set a comprehensive program portfolio to deliver an ambitious 3+ year vision of technical innovation.
• Engage with Principal Engineers, Engineering-Managers and PMTs to reach decisions on hotly debated technical topics.
• Hold partner engineering teams accountable for setting and delivering ambitious goals that improve competitive practices within their services.
• Identify inter-system dependencies and align on then monitor paths to address them.
• Participate in quarterly business review series and s-team goal updates with Senior Vice Presidents.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed