Senior Engagement Manager, Professional Services

Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at lower cost? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? Do you like to work on-site in a variety of business environments, leading teams through high impact projects that use the newest cloud infrastructure and platform technologies? Would you like a career path that enables you to progress with the rapid adoption of cloud computing?

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring a technical Engagement Manager to lead AWS consultants, partners, and client teams. Engagement Managers manage and deliver AWS cloud products and services that enable our customers to realize their business objectives. These professional services engagements focus on the full platform of AWS customer solutions to help our customers and partners remove constraints and accelerate their journey to AWS.

Key job responsibilities

As Engagement Manager, you will manage projects independently and also deliver as part of larger teams. You will own work streams end to end, starting by understanding the customer required outcomes, then leading the team through delivery, managing customer expectations, proactively handling risks, and following an effective governance structure, in order to deliver solutions tied to the customer business objectives. You will communicate effectively with AWS team members and stakeholders, as well as with customer counterparts. Achieving customer satisfaction will be a relevant driver of your work.

As an Amazonian leader, you will embrace and apply the Amazon Leadership Principles, proactively engaging other teams to learn and share, and participating actively in the recruitment and onboarding of future team members. This is a customer-facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.

A day in the life

AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective AWS customer experience, best practices, and obsessing about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product, service, and training teams, to deliver the right solutions and drive feature innovations for our customers across all industries. Engagement Managers help Customers make decisions to meet their technical and business objectives by providing best practices, proactively identifying, and closing project gaps.

Amazon aims to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers critical applications for hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & 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, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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 in the cloud.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
2. 10+ years’ experience leading the delivery of IT projects in a global enterprise environment.
3. Experience working in Agile engagements, understanding the value proposition of the public cloud.
4. Understanding of cloud technology principles and services including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms, and consumer-facing technology.
5. Experience leveraging formal project management methodologies on enterprise-level engagements and with software development life cycle (SDLC).
6. Solid experience as project manager, project lead, engagement manager, or similar role.
7. Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, or Math.
8. Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
9. Experience presenting business, project, and solution topics to audiences of different roles including AWS and customer’s technical experts, project managers, and line of business directors.
10. Experience with Agile Project Management (APM) toolsets (Jira, RallyDev, VersionOne, Taiga, etc.) and team collaboration tools (Confluence, etc.), as well as Professional Services Automation (PSA) tools.

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