Security Assurance Lead SSA, Security Assurance - RISE

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 key position requires specialized experience identifying and supporting regulated customers compliance requirments and efforts. The position will have high visibility at the most senior levels of government agencies, institutions, and Amazon including frequent interaction with Regulators, CISOs, CTOs, their staffs, and Amazon senior leadership. The position, as part of the Amazon Security Assurance team, will act as the primary Security Assurance Regulatory interface into jurisdictions through out Sub Sahara Africa. The candidate will already have and continue to foster key relationships, be able to interpret the impacts of policy changes, and track and report on industry trends.- Ability to investigate and analyze technical and regulatory issues. - Demonstrated ability to achieve ambitious goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and excellent communication with peers and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience managing projects through completion, across multiple areas of ownership, and delivering consistently on schedule.
Excellent leadership, teamwork, and collaboration skills.
Travel may be required up to 30%.


Key job responsibilities
The Security assurance regulated sector lead provides strategy, guidance and insights to customer's assurance challenges. They will analyse, build and lead teams by creating effective mechanisms that enable regulated workloads for cloud usage.
Demonstrated experience working with Regulators in Sub Sahara Africa
Demonstrated knowledge of the Regulatory and Industry security challenges in Sub Sahara Africa

About the team
The current team thinks big, no challenge is too big for us to deliver results for our customers, whilst earning trust. We face challenges head-on, invent and simplify by building programs to provide every customer assurance in security of the cloud. We do this by working with internal stakeholders to meet customer requirements and advocate on their behalf. We partner and deliver with internal stakeholders, to enable our sales team, solutions architects and others to guide customers on their compliance journey.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Nairobi, KEN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required:

- Significant and relevant working experience serving as an advisor in a regulated market (financial services, public sector, energy, education, heathcare, service provider).
- Bachelor's Degree in related area of study.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Ability to investigate and analyze technical and regulatory issues.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve ambitious goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and excellent communication with peers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience managing projects through completion, across multiple areas of ownership, and delivering consistently on schedule.
- Excellent leadership, teamwork, and collaboration skills.
- Travel may be required 30%-50%.