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Technical Program Manager, 3P Security, Stores Vendor Information Security Assessment (VISA) Program
Amazon
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Remote Eligibility
On-site
Domain
Governance, Risk & compliance
State
Texas
City
Dallas
Job Description
Posted on:
February 11, 2025
Primary NIST Speciality
Oversee and Govern
NIST Sub-speciality
Cybersecurity Management
Seniority
Experienced
Salary ($K)
-
Summary and company overview
Summary
Stores Vendor Information Security Assurance (VISA) is seeking a highly motivated, Technical Program Manager (TPM) with security assessment experience. The Stores VISA team is responsible for driving ongoing visibility to the security posture of third-party partners within the Stores Business Security Team (BST) and corresponding business organization. There are roughly over 7700 third party partners in Stores alone. The TPM will work closely with the Worldwide Grocery Security team to execute high impact re-assessments for some of the most impactful third-party partners. The TPM will be dedicated to ensuring assessment coverage, driving remediation of any assessment findings, and 3Ps are meeting Amazon security bar requirements.
If you enjoy working at scale in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the protection of our customers within a large global organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.
The TPM will align with the Stores VISA security engineering team as we enable automated assessments and will be integral in prototyping solutions. The TPM will lead closure of assessment findings and review of security controls meeting Amazon's security bar and will involve security engineering for additional validation as needed.
This position will be based out of Dallas, Texas and may require occasional international travel.
Company Overview
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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.
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 and 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.
Responsibilities
- Scope, plan, implement and deliver security projects and programs, and collaborate with security engineering and senior leaders to align on strategic vision and goals.
- Drive projects cross functionally, build partnerships with other organizations, and work proactively with business and security teams to ensure security objectives are met.
- Collecting/reviewing data from multiple sources to develop solutions.
- Building, evolving, and improving sustainable processes and measurement systems to ensure that security requirements are maintained.
- Security knowledge on current threats, trends and mitigations.
- Skilled in risk management, business risk analysis and making complex business/risk trade-off recommendations and decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions.
- Ability or capability to assess general information security domains including network security, access management, 3P management, and other general domains.
- Solid foundation in software and security engineering principles.
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent AND 3+ years of technical program management experience project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Understanding of SDLC and Architecture System Design with the ability to ensure functionality and tradeoffs in terms of scalability, maintainability, extensibility, performance, and security
- 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience working and communicating with both non-technical and technical audiences.
- Comfortable with Amazon writing standards and narrative culture.
- Experience working cross-functionally including both business, operational, and security teams.
Additional commentary
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Summary and company overview
Summary
Stores Vendor Information Security Assurance (VISA) is seeking a highly motivated, Technical Program Manager (TPM) with security assessment experience. The Stores VISA team is responsible for driving ongoing visibility to the security posture of third-party partners within the Stores Business Security Team (BST) and corresponding business organization. There are roughly over 7700 third party partners in Stores alone. The TPM will work closely with the Worldwide Grocery Security team to execute high impact re-assessments for some of the most impactful third-party partners. The TPM will be dedicated to ensuring assessment coverage, driving remediation of any assessment findings, and 3Ps are meeting Amazon security bar requirements.
If you enjoy working at scale in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the protection of our customers within a large global organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity.
The TPM will align with the Stores VISA security engineering team as we enable automated assessments and will be integral in prototyping solutions. The TPM will lead closure of assessment findings and review of security controls meeting Amazon's security bar and will involve security engineering for additional validation as needed.
This position will be based out of Dallas, Texas and may require occasional international travel.
Company Overview
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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.
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 and 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.
About
Amazon
Company Size
Very large (20K+)
Employer type
Enterprise
Company Rating (Glassdoor)
3.8
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