Regulatory & security compliance lead, anz, compliance & security assurance (canberra)

Amazon obsesses over customers; delivering results for customers is what we do. We are looking for independent, passionate, and deeply experienced professionals in the Security, Compliance and Assurance domain to provide depth in assisting our partners, customers and their stakeholders to understand and address their security, regulatory and compliance requirements in moving their sensitive workloads and heavily regulated data into the cloud.

This position will have high visibility at the most senior levels of government agencies, financial institutions, and AWS including frequent interaction with Regulators, CISOs, CTOs, their staffs, and AWS senior leadership to ensure compliance with global AWS standards, practices and policies.

This role, as part of the AWS Compliance & Security Assurance team in Australia & New Zealand, requires the ability to develop long‐term projects and define processes and methods to ensure execution and productivity across multiple internal and external stakeholders, including customers and regulatory agencies.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Serve as an expert to AWS, customers, auditors, and regulators on regional and domestic regulations on security, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, technology, outsourcing and operational resilience in the industry.
• Anticipate new or potential laws and regulations for potential impact to AWS and our customers and develop appropriate mitigation and implementation approaches. Escalate and manage escalations as necessary.
• Develop and execute long‐term security and compliance projects and initiatives, which may have broad scope and complexity, for AWS and AWS' regulated customers.
• Innovate to develop mechanisms that continuously improve the customer experience of security assurance.
• Perform compliance impact and market assessments of emerging compliance programs.
• Develop thought leadership material on cloud and emerging technologies for regulators, internal teams and customers.
• Track and report on changes to security controls and requirements standards across the region.
• Manage tight deadlines and drive for results, while being extremely detail oriented.
• Prepare project plans and track projects through fruition.
• Support metrics, implement data collections mechanisms, analyze data and make recommendations.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in regulatory compliance, banking or non-banking supervision and examination, or government agencies involved in cybersecurity management and/or operations.
• A track record of experience in work related to security assurance, such as cybersecurity, audit or security architecture.
• Experience in program design and management.
• Advanced degree in related area of study (Computer Science, Engineering, Cyber Security, IT Security Management).
• Familiarity with cloud computing, technology risks, security and outsourcing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on governance, risk and compliance.