Amazon Web Services (AWS) U.S. State and Local Government team is leading a new paradigm shift in treasury operations and retirement administration by leveraging cloud to increase security and resilience fuel innovation and amplify customer experience.
The Finance Administration Cybersecurity & Tax (FACT) Vertical team is seeking a highly qualified individual with direct experience in helping treasury and retirement administrators and technologists achieve their digital transformation goals. In this role you will help state and local government agencies build next generation systems and solutions. You will identify opportunities to introduce the AWS cloud to transform how services are provided improve reliability and security and accelerate innovation.
You will lead short- and long-term strategy initiatives and implementation efforts and work directly with treasury and retirement authorities including Commissioners Directors CIOs and CISOs as well as technology partners. You will dive deep into business challenges propose solutions and facilitate technical discussions in a fast-paced demanding environment. A successful candidate demonstrates an ability to earn trust take ownership and deliver results.
Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a highly knowledgeable and credible expert in treasury and retirement administration with ability and passion to discuss modernizing systems that achieve efficiencies improve insights and transform customer experience.
- Identify business trends and industry challenges to develop vertical strategy and transformational solutions to help customers accelerate cloud adoption.
- Cultivate and nurture relationships with executive business and IT leaders and AWS partners.
- Work with internal teams and partners to build solutions programs and frameworks that help tax authorities modernize and digitally transform their systems.
- Support customers journey working with internal teams partners and external stakeholders to achieve customers strategic goals.
- Identify gaps in solutions and influence joint AWS and partner solution development.
- Analyze and report on market trends and performance KPIs.
- Provide thought leadership through presentations white papers blogs and social media to capture customer mindshare.
- Travel 30% to 40% and work autonomously.
About the team
You will be part of the Finance Administration Cybersecurity & Tax (FACT) Vertical team reporting to the FACT leader. We are a team of business development and domain experts who bring business context to customer and partner engagements. The FACT team supports SLG and EDU customers administering tax unemployment insurance retirement and employee benefits insurance licensing and back-office operations including HR payroll purchasing and finance. Our team has a ton of hard-won expertise in the mission of government. We are customer-centric strategic thinkers and consummate problem solvers.
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- 5 years of developing negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- 5 years of professional or military experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.