Sr. TPM - Data Governance, Business Data Technologies

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead data governance initiatives. This role is pivotal in ensuring compliance with data handling policies while collaborating with engineering teams to create efficient architectures. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in technical program management, software development, and data governance, driving innovation and compliance frameworks. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will contribute to shaping the future of data analytics and machine learning solutions, making a significant impact across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience in technical product or program management.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior engineers to manage customer data flows.
• Drive implementation of technical tasks and monitor dependencies.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Software Development

Data Governance

Project Management

Cross-Functional Team Coordination

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree (preferred)

Tools

GDPR Compliance Tools

Data Analytics Platforms

Project Management Software

Job description

Sr. TPM - Data Governance, Business Data Technologies

At Amazon, data is critical to everything we do, from understanding product inventories across our global fulfillment centers to predicting what products to recommend to customers. Data ceaselessly informs our flywheel, helping us to understand customer needs, onboard new sellers and selection, and identify opportunities for cost savings. Business Data Technologies (BDT) provides trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Amazonians to secure, store, analyze, and transform this data at unparalleled scale. BDT owns, develops, and operates Andes, one of the largest data lakes in the world, storing more than 2 exabytes of data, read/written to by 100k+ data pipelines, with >60k monthly active users. To do this, we need extraordinary individuals to build the next generation of data analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions for thousands of scientists, engineers, and analysts who rely upon us to get their jobs done in a safe and secure manner.

Data Governance is a critical function of an enterprise datalake. The org ensures data is ingested, persisted and consumed in a manner that is compliant with Amazon policies and law of the land. The BDT Data Governance organization works to ensure that users of the Andes data lake and policy owners have a consistent and seamless experience complying with Amazon’s data handling policies across multiple Amazon teams, applications, UIs, APIs, CDK and CLIs. The Data Governance organization enables core user journeys while reducing the cognitive load for users.

BDT Sr. Program Managers - Tech (TPM) deliver results in collaboration with Engineering teams and Principal Engineers to create clean architectures that support coherent and intuitive user experiences. A senior TPM will drive three essential pillars: serve as the subject matter expert for ensuring effective implementation of privacy obligations while maintaining clear regulatory documentation, lead technical design initiatives across infrastructure and business teams, and execute technical implementation while managing dependencies and escalating key risks. The tools we build should support privacy-by-design practices and demonstrate Amazon's commitment to protecting customer data in compliance with global regulations. This role contributes to Amazon's strategic Data Governance direction while building compliance frameworks for regulations like GDPR and data access policies. 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.

1. Partner with senior engineers to map the origination, augmentation and destinations of customer data across systems.
2. Lead high level and detailed technical design with senior engineers to create compliant and efficient architecture for enforcing user consent.
3. Oversee scoping and funding of technical resources required to deliver the technical design across teams.
4. Drive implementation of technical tasks, monitoring key dependencies and reporting risks/issues/blockers.
5. Own a broad scope and plenty of opportunity to influence technical direction across Amazon business and engineering teams.
6. Act as single threaded tech lead accountable for understanding and managing end to end data flows from origin through destination.
7. Set a comprehensive program portfolio to deliver an ambitious 3+ year vision of technical innovation.
8. Engage with Principal Engineers, Engineering-Managers and PMTs to reach decisions on hotly debated technical topics.
9. Hold partner engineering teams accountable for setting and delivering ambitious goals that improve competitive practices within their services.
10. Identify inter-system dependencies and align on then monitor paths to address them.
11. 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

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

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