AWS Engagement Managers seek to understand our customers' needs, their missions, how success is defined, and ensure that we are exceeding expectations in developing and delivering solutions. As an Engagement Manager, you will collaborate across roles to understand a customer's mission objectives and define project goals. You will lead peers, small teams, or groups of teams made up of AWS members, customer Stakeholders/SMEs, and potentially other vendors to create and execute a plan to achieve project goals by understanding AWS technologies, best practices, as well as the client environment. You will identify and mitigate limitations to execution.

You will guide customers through their cloud journey to transform their business. You will leverage AWS mechanisms to help customers envision strategic goals and requirements. You will use agile delivery methodology to lead project teams consisting of business and technical resources while managing scope, schedule, and cost. You will use your management and leadership capabilities to successfully execute project plans, remain sensitive to customer needs, resolve issues, escalate when appropriate. You will work to exceed customer expectations by enabling stakeholder capabilities and increasing cloud adoption.

Key job responsibilities

WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

You will be passionate about working at AWS and live our credo of "Work hard. Have fun. Make history." You will be willing to take on any challenge and make a significant impact for your customer.

You will enjoy working with State Local Government and Education customers to help them envision transformational cloud initiatives. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers.

You will deliver business objectives by managing a matrixed team across multi-stream, agile, technical engagements for customers. Plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery. This includes capturing and validating requirements, developing and managing project governance plans, project schedules and milestones, budgets, team goals, and defining success criteria.

You will ensure goal alignment across stakeholder groups which may include customers, internal teams, and partners. Create and deliver communication tailored to the audience, ranging from executive level project updates to detailed sprint plans and financial reports.

You will apply judgement and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams as well as manage client expectations during the engagement.

You are a strategic thinker who can demonstrate understanding of requirements, foresee risks, make decisions guided by policies, procedures and a business plan with limited guidance.

You have business and financial acumen to manage the scope, timeline, and budget of each individual project.

You are a strategic business partner to help customers achieve their mission outcomes and help to drive innovation throughout the engagement life cycle through iterative feedback mechanisms.

You are a partner for the AWS Account, Support, and Service teams to convey customer and partner feedback and lessons learned to improve AWS products and service offerings.

This is a customer-facing role and you will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of leading multiple Agile teams (like Scrum Masters, Product Owners) concurrently or at scale experience

- 5+ years of cloud computing experience

- Bachelor's degree in STEM field

- Knowledge of the value proposition of the public cloud and cloud engagement delivery (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

- Experience in leading and delivering enterprise-level IT engagements

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of delivering customer engagements in a professional services role experience

- active project management certification (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2)

- AWS certification

- Experience in delivering customer engagements in a professional services role

- Experience with Agile and project management toolsets like Jira, Rally, VersionOne or Taiga

- Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent

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, VA, Arlington - 153,600.00 - 207,700.00 USD annually