Senior Compliance Specialist, Govt. Compliance and Authorizations

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for diving deep into industry requirements, establishing and maintaining regulatory and authority relationships for security requirements and establish long-term strategies to meet customer and regulatory security assurance needs and requirements. At AWS' scale, we hire experienced builders to design and operate scalable mechanisms to provide the highest level of assurance to our most regulatory conscious customers.

We are looking for a highly motivated senior industry expert to join our Government Compliance and Authorization Team. As part of the team, you will own and lead a strategic element of our US Government Compliance Program (e.g. FedRAMP, DoD). 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 and industry professional who has the 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
Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of compliance program activities and recommend improvements to improve delivery at scale.

Leading and managing projects and campaigns with excellent project management skills.

Creating operational mechanisms to address recurring escalation patterns and persistent challenges

Simplifying and decomposing security compliance requirements into clear technical specifications and policies

Setting the vision and connecting the vision between technology, business strategies and requirements

Communicating to senior leadership the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and lead improvement efforts. Leading Escalations

Influencing incoming and present regulations, legislation, mandates and standards for the betterment of AWS and our customers and reduce the impact to our internal and external stakeholders

Fielding and addressing requests for team support in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Diving deep into the operations of AWS compliance programs to develop broad domain and technical understanding of regulatory and customer expectations to drive process improvement initiatives.

Bridging communication with both technical engineering and business teams to successfully capture and implement business requirements.

Transforming raw thoughts into clear technical documentation and/or direction.

Operating a quality rhythm of the business for managing compliance expectations.

Using high judgment to distill diverse inputs from large customer segments and stakeholders to set a vision and design the right long-term solutions.

Leading a large, challenging initiative.


About the team
Diverse Experiences
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