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Technical Program Manager roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field. Australian professionals can secure two-year renewable status with no lottery and no annual cap, making this one of the most direct U.S. work visa pathways available.
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Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Regulation Tech and Assurance team in the Amazon Privacy org. We own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring compliance with high-impact, urgent regulation across Amazon services worldwide. The Senior TPM will own three key pillars: 1) act as the SME for how Amazon systems process customer personal data to deliver unique customer experiences, 2) act as SME for Amazon data controls that protect customer personal data, and 3) lead end-to-end technical design across infrastructure and business teams and 4) drive implementation of technical tasks while monitoring dependencies and reporting key risks, issues and blockers. The Senior TPM will contribute to the strategic direction for Amazon’s privacy practices while building/owning the compliance approach for individual regulations such as GDPR, Digital Markets Act (DMA), and more. This will require helping to frame, and participating in, high judgment debates and decision making across senior business, technology, legal, and public policy leaders.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with senior engineers to map the origination, augmentation and destinations of customer data across systems.
- Lead high level and detailed technical design with senior engineers to create compliant and efficient architecture for enforcing user consent.
- Oversee scoping and funding of technical resources required to deliver the technical design across teams.
- Drive implementation of technical tasks, monitoring key dependencies and reporting risks/issues/blockers.
- Own a broad scope and plenty of opportunity to influence technical direction across Amazon business and engineering teams.
- Act as single threaded tech lead accountable for understanding and leading end to end data flows from origin through destination.
- Set a comprehensive program portfolio to deliver an ambitious 3+ year vision of technical innovation.
- Engage with Principal Engineers, Engineering-Managers and PMTs to reach decisions on hotly debated technical topics.
- Hold partner engineering teams accountable for setting and delivering ambitious goals that improve competitive practices within their services.
- Identify inter-system dependencies and align on then monitor paths to address them.
- Participate in quarterly business review series and s-team goal updates with Senior Vice Presidents.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, TX, Austin - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Regulation Tech and Assurance team in the Amazon Privacy org. We own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring compliance with high-impact, urgent regulation across Amazon services worldwide. The Senior TPM will own three key pillars: 1) act as the SME for how Amazon systems process customer personal data to deliver unique customer experiences, 2) act as SME for Amazon data controls that protect customer personal data, and 3) lead end-to-end technical design across infrastructure and business teams and 4) drive implementation of technical tasks while monitoring dependencies and reporting key risks, issues and blockers. The Senior TPM will contribute to the strategic direction for Amazon’s privacy practices while building/owning the compliance approach for individual regulations such as GDPR, Digital Markets Act (DMA), and more. This will require helping to frame, and participating in, high judgment debates and decision making across senior business, technology, legal, and public policy leaders.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with senior engineers to map the origination, augmentation and destinations of customer data across systems.
- Lead high level and detailed technical design with senior engineers to create compliant and efficient architecture for enforcing user consent.
- Oversee scoping and funding of technical resources required to deliver the technical design across teams.
- Drive implementation of technical tasks, monitoring key dependencies and reporting risks/issues/blockers.
- Own a broad scope and plenty of opportunity to influence technical direction across Amazon business and engineering teams.
- Act as single threaded tech lead accountable for understanding and leading end to end data flows from origin through destination.
- Set a comprehensive program portfolio to deliver an ambitious 3+ year vision of technical innovation.
- Engage with Principal Engineers, Engineering-Managers and PMTs to reach decisions on hotly debated technical topics.
- Hold partner engineering teams accountable for setting and delivering ambitious goals that improve competitive practices within their services.
- Identify inter-system dependencies and align on then monitor paths to address them.
- Participate in quarterly business review series and s-team goal updates with Senior Vice Presidents.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, TX, Austin - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
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Translate your Australian credentials for U.S. employers
A three-year Australian bachelor's degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a four-year U.S. degree for E-3 visa purposes. Get a credential evaluation from a USCIS-recognized evaluator before interviews so you can answer degree questions confidently.
Target employers with existing LCA filing history
TPM roles at companies that have previously filed Labor Condition Applications with the DOL move faster because their HR and legal teams already know the E-3 process. Search DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data to verify a company's LCA track record before applying.
Reframe sponsorship as a business case in interviews
E-3 sponsorship costs employers significantly less than H-1B visa in fees and has no lottery risk, so the objection you'll face isn't cost, it's unfamiliarity. Bring a one-page summary of E-3 requirements to your offer negotiation so hiring managers can brief their legal team accurately.
Align your job description with DOL's specialty occupation definition
The LCA requires the TPM role to meet DOL's specialty occupation standard. Review the job posting before your offer is finalized and flag any language like 'bachelor's preferred' rather than 'required,' which can trigger a DOL challenge at the LCA stage.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the LCA and consulate prep
After receiving a written offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA filing with the DOL and prepare your DS-160 and consulate documents. A dedicated E-3 expert manages the process end-to-end, so your start date isn't delayed by paperwork errors.
Plan your consulate appointment around your notice period
E-3 visa interviews at Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth can have varying wait times. Book your appointment immediately after your employer's LCA is certified rather than waiting until you've resigned, so your start date aligns with your consulate slot.
E-3 Visa Technical Program Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Technical Program Manager jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. You can filter Technical Program Manager positions by companies with active sponsorship history, saving the time you'd otherwise spend cold-screening employers who aren't familiar with the E-3 process.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Technical Program Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3 visa?
Yes, Technical Program Manager roles typically qualify because they require a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field such as computer science, engineering, or information systems. The key is that the job posting and offer letter must specify a degree requirement, not just a preference. If the role description is vague, ask the employer to tighten the language before the LCA is filed with the DOL.
How does the E-3 visa compare to H-1B for Technical Program Manager roles?
The E-3 has no annual cap and no lottery, so you're not competing for one of 85,000 slots each April. Your employer files an LCA with the DOL and you apply directly at the U.S. consulate in Australia, which means the timeline from offer to start date can be weeks rather than months. H-1B requires lottery selection first, then a lengthy USCIS adjudication before you can begin work.
Can I change employers or roles while on an E-3 visa as a Technical Program Manager?
Yes, but each new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL and you'll need a new E-3 visa stamp for the new role. There's no H-1B-style portability that lets you transfer status automatically. If you're changing jobs within the U.S., plan for the consulate appointment timeline and confirm whether your current E-3 stamp's validity allows re-entry before resigning.