Amazon

Senior Customer Solutions Manager, US FED CIV

Amazon$153K — $207K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years leading large-scale technical or engineering programs with successful outcomes
  • 2+ years in customer-facing roles with executives/technologists
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  • Experience leading diverse project teams across functions
  • Active Top Secret US Government Security Clearance

Responsibilities

  • Guide customers through their cloud transformation journey
  • Accelerate customer value realization by adopting AWS services
  • Help customers achieve cloud readiness and fluency
  • Establish and mature governance structures for success
  • Define business and technical risks associated with cloud projects
  • Influence technical stakeholders and drive alignment on strategies
  • Serve as the customer's voice within AWS, advocating for their needs

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Expenses covered for adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
  • Mental Health Support and Employee Assistance Program
Full Job Description
Application deadline: May 25, 2026

Are you passionate about shaping the future of the federal government by paving the way for innovation through customer advocacy? Do you have the program management and technical acumen to earn trust with executives and project team members alike? Are you a problem solver motivated to foster cloud adoption in alignment with your customer's mission ?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) to come join our Worldwide Public Sector team to help customers realize sustained business value by accelerating their cloud transformation journey.

This position requires 25% - 40% travel dependent on geo and time of year.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.

Key job responsibilities

Working with organizations in all stages of their cloud adoption, Customer Solutions Managers (CSMs) are advocates guiding customers through the value realization, enablement, and governance of their cloud transformation journey.

Value Realization: You identify and accelerate the customer's realization of value throughout the cloud lifecycle through the adoption of AWS services, AWS partner solutions, AWS best practices, and other.

Enablement: You help customers achieve organizational cloud readiness, cloud fluency and cloud skills through skills guilds, experience-based accelerators, training partners, and other.

Governance: You establish and mature operating models / structures to drive scale and long-term success through the application of AWS frameworks and mechanisms.

A day in the life

Empowered by an inclusive environment, work/life harmony, and career advancement, you are a member of a diverse, global community of Customer Solutions Managers (CSM) who deliver cloud solutions that influence business and IT transformation for our customers. Day-to-day, you will balance your time between directly engaging with customers, partners, internal AWS teams and services to help our customers on their journey in the AWS Cloud.

You will work across AWS to apply your technical, business, and program management expertise to solve some of the most complex and challenging technology problems for our customers.

Working backwards from the customer, you will define opportunities and understand associated business and technical risks that are strategic to the customer's cloud journey including large-scale migrations, data analytics, digital transformation and innovation, business agility and other.

You will influence technical stakeholders, partner with cross-functional teams and pre/post sales to drive detailed discussions seeking alignment to deliver cloud adoption and migration strategies with, and on behalf of your customer.

You create, manage, and deliver business and technology projects navigating risks or roadblocks and can execute in an ambiguous and changing environment.

You will serve as the customer's cloud journey coach and be the voice of the customer within AWS, evangelizing customer needs to AWS leadership, product, and engineering teams

To support the evolution of the AWS customer experience and/or Customer Solutions Manager discipline, you are expected to share best practice learnings into a reusable asset for internal re-use.

Seeking a candidate who is able to pass the Certified Solution Architect, Associate level within the first year of employment, as well as the AWS AI Practitioner Exam within the first three-months of employment.

About the team

Worldwide Public Sector CSMs are advocates that help customers invent and build in the cloud.
• Working backwards from the Customer- we dive deep to understand context, vision, and strategic goals to proactively guide and accelerate cloud journeys.
• Guided by Facts and Data - through our expertise, we inform priorities and influence the customer, AWS service, best practice and industry solution opportunities.
• Focus on Excellence - we take pride in our knowledge and expertise in bringing the best solutions forward to achieve customer outcomes.
• Simplification and Agility - we bring clarity to complexity and enable experience-based learning and iterative approaches to demonstrate results and value.
• Inclusion, Diversity & Equity - we take intentional actions to support our authentic selves, celebrate diverse perspectives, and ensure opportunities for growth are available to all.

Diverse Experiences

AWS 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience

- 2+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience

- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent

- Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams

- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe certification

- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar

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.

USA, CO, Denver - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

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