Principal Technical Program Manager, Healthcare Security
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Location: Seattle, WA 98115
Description:
Are you energized by the opportunity to protect sensitive healthcare data while enabling innovation at scale?
Amazon Security is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead security initiatives across Amazon's Healthcare Security organization. In this role, you will drive the Healthcare Security strategy and roadmap while collaborating with engineering teams to implement robust security controls that protect our customers' most sensitive information. Your scope includes establishing security frameworks, driving vulnerability management programs, and ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations including HIPAA.
This is a highly visible position where you'll partner with senior technical leaders and architects to influence security decisions that impact millions of customers. You'll be responsible for building scalable security programs that protect customer data while enabling the rapid growth of Amazon's healthcare business. Success in this role requires exceptional program management skills, deep technical acumen, strong business judgment, and the ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries.
The ideal candidate will bring experience leading security programs in healthcare or highly regulated industries, a track record of building high-performing teams, and the ability to navigate complex technical and organizational challenges. If you're passionate about solving complex security problems at scale while helping to transform healthcare delivery, we want to talk to you.
Key job responsibilities
- Driving the strategic, technical, and engineering direction of our Healthcare Security Operations Program.
- Leverage relationships with engineers across Healthcare Tech, clinical teams, and compliance leaders throughout Amazon to prioritize security initiatives, remove barriers, and strengthen our security processes.
- Protect sensitive health data, ensuring security measures scale with our rapidly growing healthcare business.
- Build trust with Principal Engineers and executive leaders by leveraging your technical expertise to understand healthcare-specific security challenges, design innovative solutions, and maintain rigorous security standards.
- Use your healthcare security expertise to champion and drive risk-based decisions across complex, multi-disciplinary programs to ensure Amazon properly manages security risk while enabling healthcare innovation.
- Balance security requirements with healthcare delivery needs, understanding security workflows, and maintaining strong security controls in a highly regulated environment.
- Work at the intersection of healthcare compliance, technical security, and business strategy to protect our customers' most sensitive health information.
A day in the life
This position within the Healthcare Security team represents a rare opportunity to get in with a fast-growing business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical security and software expertise, strong business acumen, and judgment. In this role, you will lead your team to partner with the engineering teams to deliver software services that are designed for security from the outset and launched with a high security bar.
You will continue to raise the security bar of services in production and ensure that there are mechanisms and metrics to improve security. You will define the right long-term security architecture partnering with our engineering leaders, and deliver innovative ideas to improve security across both internal and third-party services that we use to deliver the customer experience.
You will need to be an exceptional organizational leader, who can hire, grow and retain a diverse and talented team of security professionals to deliver this mission.
About the team
At Amazon, we're on an ambitious journey to transform how people experience healthcare - making it radically simpler, more accessible, and truly customer-centric. We're not just dreaming about the future of medicine - we're actively building it through innovative technology and forward-thinking solutions that put healthcare at fingertips of millions of people.
Every day, our teams push boundaries to create seamless ways for customers to discover, access, and engage with the healthcare services they need. We're combining Amazon's culture of innovation with advanced technology to break down traditional barriers in healthcare. And while we're moving fast to revolutionize the industry, we never compromise on what matters most: customer trust.
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.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our 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.
Join us as we reshape healthcare for generations to come!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of technical program management experience
- Experience working directly with engineering teams
- Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Understanding of SDLC and Architecture System Design with the ability to ensure functionality and tradeoffs in terms of scalability, maintainability, extensibility, performance, and security
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience working directly in or closely with a security organization
- Experience working within a healthcare or healthcare security organization
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Amazon Security is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead security initiatives across Amazon's Healthcare Security organization. In this role, you will drive the Healthcare Security strategy and roadmap while collaborating with engineering teams to implement robust security controls that protect our customers' most sensitive information. Your scope includes establishing security frameworks, driving vulnerability management programs, and ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations including HIPAA.
This is a highly visible position where you'll partner with senior technical leaders and architects to influence security decisions that impact millions of customers. You'll be responsible for building scalable security programs that protect customer data while enabling the rapid growth of Amazon's healthcare business. Success in this role requires exceptional program management skills, deep technical acumen, strong business judgment, and the ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries.
The ideal candidate will bring experience leading security programs in healthcare or highly regulated industries, a track record of building high-performing teams, and the ability to navigate complex technical and organizational challenges. If you're passionate about solving complex security problems at scale while helping to transform healthcare delivery, we want to talk to you.
Key job responsibilities
- Driving the strategic, technical, and engineering direction of our Healthcare Security Operations Program.
- Leverage relationships with engineers across Healthcare Tech, clinical teams, and compliance leaders throughout Amazon to prioritize security initiatives, remove barriers, and strengthen our security processes.
- Protect sensitive health data, ensuring security measures scale with our rapidly growing healthcare business.
- Build trust with Principal Engineers and executive leaders by leveraging your technical expertise to understand healthcare-specific security challenges, design innovative solutions, and maintain rigorous security standards.
- Use your healthcare security expertise to champion and drive risk-based decisions across complex, multi-disciplinary programs to ensure Amazon properly manages security risk while enabling healthcare innovation.
- Balance security requirements with healthcare delivery needs, understanding security workflows, and maintaining strong security controls in a highly regulated environment.
- Work at the intersection of healthcare compliance, technical security, and business strategy to protect our customers' most sensitive health information.
A day in the life
This position within the Healthcare Security team represents a rare opportunity to get in with a fast-growing business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical security and software expertise, strong business acumen, and judgment. In this role, you will lead your team to partner with the engineering teams to deliver software services that are designed for security from the outset and launched with a high security bar.
You will continue to raise the security bar of services in production and ensure that there are mechanisms and metrics to improve security. You will define the right long-term security architecture partnering with our engineering leaders, and deliver innovative ideas to improve security across both internal and third-party services that we use to deliver the customer experience.
You will need to be an exceptional organizational leader, who can hire, grow and retain a diverse and talented team of security professionals to deliver this mission.
About the team
At Amazon, we're on an ambitious journey to transform how people experience healthcare - making it radically simpler, more accessible, and truly customer-centric. We're not just dreaming about the future of medicine - we're actively building it through innovative technology and forward-thinking solutions that put healthcare at fingertips of millions of people.
Every day, our teams push boundaries to create seamless ways for customers to discover, access, and engage with the healthcare services they need. We're combining Amazon's culture of innovation with advanced technology to break down traditional barriers in healthcare. And while we're moving fast to revolutionize the industry, we never compromise on what matters most: customer trust.
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.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our 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.
Join us as we reshape healthcare for generations to come!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of technical program management experience
- Experience working directly with engineering teams
- Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Understanding of SDLC and Architecture System Design with the ability to ensure functionality and tradeoffs in terms of scalability, maintainability, extensibility, performance, and security
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience working directly in or closely with a security organization
- Experience working within a healthcare or healthcare security organization
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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.