Our privacy solutions enable Amazon Engineering teams to meet privacy requirements through attestation systems, data lineage tracking, centralized repositories, leadership dashboards, and automated regulatory documentation. These tools support privacy-by-design practices and demonstrate Amazon's commitment to protecting customer data in compliance with global regulations.
The Senior TPM will drive three essential pillars: serve as the subject matter expert for Amazon's customer personal data processing systems, lead technical design initiatives across infrastructure and business teams, and execute technical implementation while managing dependencies and escalating key risks.
This role contributes to Amazon's strategic privacy direction while building compliance frameworks for regulations like GDPR. The position requires active participation in high-stakes decisions alongside senior business, technology, legal, and public policy leaders.
The ideal candidate combines expertise in data governance technology with strong system architecture judgment and the ability to translate compliance requirements into detailed technical designs. You will drive cross-service technical decisions, define technical requirements, oversee system design, maintain accountability for technical changes across multiple systems, and engage with worldwide senior leadership through quarterly reviews, organizational planning, and s-team updates.
We seek an experienced leader with a strong technical program management or software engineering background, demonstrated success in technical innovation, and proven ability to navigate complex regulatory environments.
Key job responsibilities
The below summarizes the key scope and responsibilities for this role.
- 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 managing 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.
BASIC 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
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Track record of successful technical program management
- Passion for working with technical and operational teams, especially in data privacy and data sharing
- Ability to set think big strategic direction on cross-service technical architecture while diving deep into tactical implementation decisions.
- Ability to define clear and comprehensive technical requirements for engineering teams
- Ability to create effective, functional and efficient technical design incorporating inputs from dozens of tech teams
- Ability to self-organize across several programs each with multiple workstreams and to complete them on time with a clear focus on quantitative results
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
- Master’s Degree (preferably in business, technology, or policy)
- Data privacyc/governance background preferred
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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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.