Security Industry Specialist, Japan, Compliance & Security Assurance

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 candidate should be a technically experienced and innovative security/compliance professional who has the ability to handle a wide range of regulatory and government security and privacy requirements and can translate those requirements into applications for cloud computing. 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 Japan, 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 regulatory expert to AWS, customers, auditors, and regulators on regional and domestic regulations on outsourcing, cybersecurity, and operational resilience in the industry.
- Anticipate new or potential domestic and regional 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 regulatory projects and initiatives, which may have broad scope and complexity, for AWS and AWS' regulated customers.
- Create, optimize, and support cross-functional groups and projects.
- Develop thought leadership material on cloud and emerging technologies for regulators and internal customers.
- Manage tight deadlines and drive for results, while being extremely detail orientated
- 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, regulatory affairs, or public sector agencies involved in cybersecurity management and/or operations.
· 5+ years experience working directly with senior government officials, boards of directors, and executives on financial regulatory, technology, or related policy issues.
· 5+ years experience internalizing and/or influencing national, international, and sectoral laws and regulations.
· 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

· Highly effective oral, written and interpersonal communication skills; demonstrated ability to effectively and comfortably interact at senior and executive levels.
· Experience and proficiency in report and policy writing
· Self-starter with proven track record of successfully working with a wide array of functional groups across an organization and cultures as well as working independently.
· Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to use data to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions.
· Ability to investigate and analyze technical and regulatory issues with applicability to AWS services.

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