Automotive Compliance Specialist, Auto

Amazon Web Services (AWS) accelerates the automotive industry’s digital transformation through the most comprehensive set of purpose-built cloud capabilities, unmatched experience, and broadest AWS Partner and developer community. AWS supports automotive customers across a variety of workloads and solution areas, including connected mobility, software-defined vehicles, product engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, digital customer engagement, and autonomous mobility. AWS offers global public cloud offerings with a diversity of compliance programs and attestations to help enable our customers.

AWS is looking for an independent, passionate, and deeply experienced automotive compliance professional to help provide thought leadership in assisting automotive customers with their use cases, including moving data and regulated workloads to the cloud by addressing their specific security, regulatory, compliance and governance requirements. This candidate should be an experienced and innovative security/compliance/governance professional who has the ability to handle a wide range of EMEA-related compliance requirements and translate the requirements into applications for cloud computing and supporting customer use cases. The Compliance Specialist will work directly with AWS automotive customers and industry partners in adapting their frameworks and architectures to successfully move their IT and more complex strategic workloads to the AWS cloud or build and deploy their solutions using AWS services.

This key position requires specialized experience supporting automotive industry compliance efforts and will have high visibility at the most senior levels of government agencies, institutions, and AWS, including frequent interaction with CISOs, CTOs, CCOs, CROs, their staffs, and AWS senior leadership.

The position, as part of the global AWS Automotive & Manufacturing team, will act as the primary EMEA-related compliance interface for automotive customers and institutions. The candidate will already have, and continue to help foster, key relationships, and be able to interpret the impacts of policy changes, and track and report on industry trends.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Key job responsibilities
•Help drive and execute a global compliance automotive strategy across AWS and work across Amazon teams, where appropriate.
•Participate in automotive regulatory compliance assessments and relevant control discussions with AWS teams. This includes synthesizing control requirements, and recommending and pursuing alternative approaches assisting customers in developing compliance roadmaps.
•Help develop industry-leading automotive compliance resources (internal and customer-facing) based on current demands and projected customer needs.
•Assist the AWS Security team in determining the strategic direction of various AWS compliance programs, including new certifications, based on customer interaction and demonstrative metrics.
•Be and remain connected with automotive industry trends and events.
•Develop and maintain relationships with key leaders in governance, risk, and compliance in the automotive industry.
•Collaborate with AWS service teams on industry specific requirements or standards that may impact components of AWS services.
•Support the development of tactical development plans while working with internal stakeholders including compliance specialists, security assurance, public policy, business development managers, sales teams, solution architects, professional services and support teams, legal and contract teams, and AWS service teams.
•Identify and manage risks, resolve issues, and escalate where appropriate to help drive projects to successful completion.
•Keep the AWS Automotive & Manufacturing leadership team informed of customer engagement status, issues, and activities.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong experience in automotive technology compliance, legal, governance, audit; consulting; or with a regulatory body.
•Demonstrated personal, hands-on experience in developing compliance/regulatory documentation for the automotive industry and engaging with automotive global compliance requirements, standards, and best practices.
•Experience of working with senior corporate, government officials, and auditors.
•Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level plus experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
•Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with team members and audiences of all levels alongside demonstrated ability to understand the operating styles of others as well as team relationships, team dynamics, and adjusts behavior accordingly to succeed. Recognizes environmental or cultural nuances and adapts.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•Familiarity with technical assessments and audit methodologies for technical systems (network, operating systems, application security) as well as IT auditing processes.
•Familiarity with cloud computing services/deployment architecture.
•Demonstration of innovative compliance approaches in non-traditional IT environments (cloud).
•Experience and proficiency in public speaking.
•Experience defining compliance roadmaps based on customer requirements, compliance documentation, and ensuring that committed assessments are delivered on schedule.
• Record of supporting onboarding of IT and a range of other automotive workloads to the cloud.
•Experience in building successful global compliance programs and actively looks for ways to improve process efficiencies and effectiveness.

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