Technical Program Manager

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

In Amazon Stores, we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From Amazon.com to world class machine learning pipelines, from leading-edge digital healthcare to no-checkout retail, we push the boundaries of technology in every direction using the globe’s largest AWS deployment.

We are hiring Technical Project Manager to lead adoption of application security processes and improvements across internal customer teams. Technical Engagement Managers proactively reach out to at-risk organizations to better understand their application security needs, and develop a plan for security engineering teams to execute. They also work with in collaboration with other Technical Engagement Managers and Leaders to build and run the application security team.

Key job responsibilities
- Internal organization outreach to understand application security needs and areas of improvement.
- Understand the business context and impact of proposed security process improvements.
- Demonstrate hands on expertise in project management and agile best practices across large and complex engagements.
- Collaborate with internal organizations’ business leaders, development teams, and application security engineering teams to to seek to understand our customers’ needs, their business, how success is defined, and ensure that we are exceeding expectations in developing and delivering customer outcomes.
- Manages engagement goals and leads teams to achieve customers’ business outcomes by managing issues, risks, decisions, dependencies, and action items.
- Ability to apply strategic thinking to create and execute a plan to achieve project goals tied to customer business outcomes.
- Ability to influence, negotiate, resolve conflicts and achieve results through others who are not direct reports.

About the team
About Amazon Security:

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.- Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
- Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- Extensive experience and expertise in technical project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience

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