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Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 1 day ago

Engagement Manager, AWS Professional Services

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$118K/yr - $204K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

You will be passionate about working at AWS and live our credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history.” In this role, you will love what you do and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be willing to take on any challenge and make a significant impact for your customer.

You bring your industry specific knowledge to solve business problems for our customers. The primary industries of focus are Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Health Care & Life Sciences, Telco & Media.

You will deliver business objectives by managing a matrix-ed 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, team goals, defining success criteria and project milestones, and budgets.

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 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.

Qualification

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AWS experienceAgile methodologiesProject managementSDLC experienceFinancial Services knowledgeCloud transformationStakeholder managementMaster's degreeActive project management certificationWaterfall methodologiesC-level presentationsFinancialForce PSA

Required

5+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience, with proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior business and technology leaders (up to and including CxO).

Able to represent AWS within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation

Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile/iterative methodologies

Demonstrated experience leveraging project management and agile methodologies on enterprise level engagements and the ability to apply them across large, complex projects.

BS level technical degree or equivalent experience

Preferred

MBA or Master's degree in a management, technical or engineering field. Professional experience can be counted in lieu of graduate degree.

AWS/Cloud experience and certifications.

Active project management certification (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-ACP, PMP, SAFe, PRINCE2 etc)

Managed engagements using both Waterfall and Agile/Iterative methodologies

Led technical projects consisting of 10+ people totaling over $2,000,000 budget

Managed and delivered IT and Transformation engagements for a Fortune 100 company

Presented to C-level executives (CIO, CEO, CTO, CISO, etc.) as well as to technical subject matter experts

FinancialForce Professional Services Automation (PSA) for Salesforce

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Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.

Founded in 2002

Seattle, Washington, USA

10001+ employees