Engagement Manager, AWS Professional Services, South Africa

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a highly skilled and versatile Engagement Manager (EM) to join our team and lead the delivery of complex cloud solution projects. In this role you will combine technical expertise with strong project leadership skills to drive successful implementations of AWSbased solutions for our clients. You will bridge business requirements with technical solutions facilitating technical discussions and ensuring alignment with customer outcomes. Applying AWS frameworks like WellArchitected and Cloud Adoption Framework while demonstrating technical credibility across diverse stakeholders you will distill customer needs into clear technical requirements decompose complex problems and make informed tradeoff decisions considering performance scalability security and business impact. Possessing strong technology and program/project management experience you will validate technical solutions against business goals recognize when additional technical evaluation is needed and manage technical risks. You will be expected to achieve and maintain relevant AWS certifications develop domainspecific expertise and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and business audiences. As you progress youll lead increasingly complex technical projects shape crossorganizational technical strategies and establish best practices in your domain. In this role you will apply your management and leadership capabilities to successfully execute project plans proactively identify and manage risks resolve issues escalate when appropriate and drive projects to successful completion while exceeding customer expectation The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices which cover a variety of solutions technologies and industries.

Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology program/project manager you will be responsible for:

Leading and managing complex cloud migration and implementation projects
Leveraging comprehensive knowledge of AWS services architectures and best practices to guide technical decisions and strategic planning Bridging business requirements with technical solutions facilitating engineering discussions and ensuring alignment with customer business outcomes
Distilling customer needs into clear technical requirements and map them to business outcomes Decomposing complex technical problems into actionable deliverable solutions
Contributing to technical documentation and define documentation standards

About the team
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5 years Project Management handson experience in managing and delivering enterprise level IT projects with external customers or equivalent experience
Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple and concurrent projects/customers.
Led teams and engagements utilizing agile approaches value and principles as well as Scrum framework
Understands the value proposition of cloud services and has delivered cloud engagements and experience with Agile and Project Management (APM) toolsets (Jira RallyDev VersionOne Taiga etc and Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.

Has at least one active project management certification (e.g. APM CSM PMIACP PRINCE2)
Managed technical projects consisting of 4 or more people totaling over $500000 budget
Managed and delivered IT engagements for large enterprise customers.
Managed engagements using Agile/Iterative methodologies and possesses a deep knowledge of Agile and Scaled program management best practices and how to pragmatically apply across large complex projects.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer and we value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age sex disability sexual orientation race religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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