Amazon Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) - Data Governance
Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Strategic Regulation Tech team in the Amazon Privacy Services 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 Governance will own three key pillars:
- Act as the SME for how Amazon systems process customer personal data to deliver unique customer experiences.
- Lead end-to-end technical design across infrastructure and business teams.
- 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 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 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 cutting-edge data governance technology, high judgement in system architecture decisions, and the 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.
Key Job 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 controlling 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 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.
- 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 KPIs/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
- Master’s Degree (preferably in business, technology, or policy).
- Data privacy/governance background preferred.
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.
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.
This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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