Senior Technical Program Manager
Amazon
Senior Technical Program Manager
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join the Data Access Controls team in Business Data Technologies (BDT). You will own and drive complex programs that define how Amazon's largest data lake is governed, ensuring the right people see the right data at the right time.
You will partner with AWS teams, Amazon security and compliance organizations, and multiple engineering teams to deliver governance solutions used by hundreds of thousands of data consumers. You will drive large outcomes by influencing across organizational boundaries, creating structure in ambiguous spaces, and shipping programs that balance security with usability.
This role requires someone who is equally comfortable in technical architecture discussions and stakeholder alignment meetings. You will need to understand distributed systems, data access control models, and policy frameworks well enough to challenge designs, identify risks early, and make trade-offs that protect customer trust without creating unnecessary friction.
Key job responsibilities
- Own complex, multi-quarter programs end-to-end, from requirements through delivery to adoption, spanning engineering, product, UX, and compliance teams
- Drive cross-organizational alignment with policy steward organizations (Privacy, InfoSec, Legal) to rationalize, design, and onboard new compliance policies into the access control system
- Run large-scale adoption campaigns coordinating hundreds of dataset owner teams to classify data and enable governance controls
- Partner with AWS service teams to design solutions that work within and extend their capabilities
- Define and track program metrics and drive measurable improvements
- Identify technical risks in system designs and ensure current implementations do not block future architectural evolution
- Create clarity and structure in high-ambiguity domains where governance requirements, technical constraints, and customer experience must be balanced simultaneously
- Influence engineering architecture decisions and drive technical trade-offs across teams without direct authority
- Communicate program status, risks, and decisions effectively to senior leadership
A day in the life
We own the fine-grained access control system that governs every analytical query across Amazon's data lake: policy definition, access requests, approval workflows, permission enforcement, and renewal. We're building toward self-service governance where data owners control their own access policies without bottlenecks, and pioneering access controls for AI and multi-modal data (images, video, audio, ML artifacts), a space with no industry playbook.
Why this role is compelling:
High ambiguity: we're defining new governance primitives, not just implementing specs
Every improvement directly impacts hundreds of thousands of data consumers or strengthens Amazon's security posture
Cross-cutting influence: you'll partner with Privacy, InfoSec, Legal, and every SDO data team
The problems are genuinely hard: balancing security with usability, scaling fine-grained controls without drowning consumers in friction, designing abstractions that hold across column-based, row-based, and identity-resolved policies
You'll shape the roadmap, not just execute it
About the team
We own the fine-grained access control system that governs every analytical query across Amazon's data lake: policy definition, access requests, approval workflows, permission enforcement, and renewal. We're building toward self-service governance where data owners control their own access policies without bottlenecks, and pioneering access controls for AI and multi-modal data (images, video, audio, ML artifacts), a space with no industry playbook.
- 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
- 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
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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
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