Engagement Manager, AWS Professional Services

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service unmatched technology and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customers unique challenges then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the worlds most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

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 this role you will combine technical expertise with strong project leadership skills to drive successful implementations of AWS-based 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 Well-Architected 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 trade-off 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 domain-specific expertise and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and business audiences. As you progress youll lead increasingly complex technical projects shape cross-organizational technical strategies and establish best practices in your 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.



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

A day in the life
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.

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- 5 years of program or engagement management work leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects experience
- 5 years of leading the delivery of IT projects with external customers or equivalent experience
- 1 years of working as a Scrum Master or Product Owner across multiple cross-functional teams experience
- Experience with Agile and project management toolsets like Jira Rally VersionOne or Taiga

- project management certification (e.g. APM CSM PMI-ACP PRINCE2)
- AWS certification
- Knowledge of the value proposition of the public cloud and cloud engagement delivery (IaaS PaaS SaaS)
- Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives IT and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent

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