Sr. FSI Assurance Specialist

About the role

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Financial Services team is looking for an experienced Information Technology Assurance Specialist to join our fast-paced FSI Security and Compliance team and help drive AWS adoption in the Financial Services industry.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to our customers' Internal Audit teams, executives, and all stakeholders involved in the adoption of AWS cloud services.
• Build deep relationships with the largest global financial institutions, from enterprise banks to Fintech startups, guiding them through their due diligence, audit, and assurance processes.
• Engage with influencers and decision-makers at all levels—including C-suite executives, Chief Audit Executives, risk officers, and technology leaders—to instill confidence in AWS as their cloud provider of choice.
• Demonstrate AWS best practices and leverage AWS resources to drive maximum efficiency during customers' assurance activities.
• Showcase AWS tooling, frameworks, and services—including AWS Artificial Intelligence technologies—that simplify and accelerate customers' audit and due diligence processes.
• Proactively identify opportunities to streamline assurance workflows, reduce redundancy, and enable customers to achieve their compliance objectives faster and more effectively using the full breadth of the AWS ecosystem.
• Serve as a recognized thought leader in the cloud assurance and technology risk space by actively participating in and contributing to external organizations such as ISACA, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), and other relevant cloud technology risk and governance bodies.
• Shape the conversation around cloud assurance best practices, elevate AWS's reputation in the financial services compliance community, and bring industry insights back to inform our strategy and customer engagements.
• Play a leadership role on the FSI Security and Compliance team, working cross-functionally with internal AWS teams—including service teams, security engineering, compliance, legal, and solutions architecture—to develop and deliver best practices, frameworks, and requirements to our customers.
• Drive internal stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of customer audit needs.
• Respond and deliver due diligence and audit intake activity for customers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of working with Business Application Technologies, including, but not limited to End User Compute (EUC), Supply Chain, Contact Center as a Service, Consumer Data Applications, Encrypted Communications, and/or Communication Developer Services experience.
• 6+ years of solving problems with technology in the Global Financial Services Industry experience.
• 6+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning), GenAI (Generative AI), Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience.
• 6+ years of in program management, workforce strategy development, or metrics-driven decision making experience.
• Experience presenting to both technical and non-technical executive audiences.
• 10+ years of risk management, audit, legal, compliance, operations, or a similar discipline experience.