DESCRIPTION

Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Amazon Privacy Service team. We own programs, products and applications that deliver technical innovation for proving compliance with data privacy obligations across Amazon services worldwide. The Principal TPM – Analytical Compliance will own three key pillars: 1) act as the SME for how Amazon systems and personnel analyze personal data to deliver customer experience, 2) lead end-to-end technical design that ensure analytical applications and operations deliver compliance end outcomes, and 3) drive implementation of technical tasks while monitoring dependencies and reporting key risks, issues and blockers. The Principal TPM will contribute to the strategic direction for Amazon’s privacy practices while building the compliance approach for individual regulations such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Digital Markets Act and more. The TPM will frame and participate in high judgment debates and decision making across senior business, technology, legal, and public policy leaders.

Key job responsibilities
A great candidate will have a unique combination of experience with analytical 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. The role reports to the Director for Regulation Tech and Assurance under Amazon Privacy Services. You will have high engagement with WW senior leadership via monthly reviews, annual organisational 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. The below summarizes the key scope and responsibilities for this role.

· Partner with senior engineers to map the origination, augmentation, destinations, access and use of user data across distributed systems.
· Lead high level and detailed technical design with senior engineers to create compliant and efficient architecture for enforcing privacy compliance in analytical systems and operations.
· 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 implementing controls in end to end analytical infrastructures.
· 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.