As a Senior Engagement Managers, you will manage internal AWS, external partner, and customer teams. You will drive engagements and focus on AWS solutions to help customers and partners remove constraints and accelerate their journey to AWS. In this role, you will plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery. This includes developing and managing project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, project milestones, budgets and defining success criteria.
In this role, you will guide individuals, teams or multiple groups to analyze project goals, create plans to achieve those goals, and then guiding AWS team members, customer stakeholders/SMEs, and potentially other third parties to achieve those goals while understanding the customer environment and addressing any limitations to execution.
Interfaces with various customers and internal AWS stakeholders which consists of senior leadership teams (C-level execs, SVP/VP, Directors) and project-level resources such as SMEs and influence, negotiate, resolve conflicts and achieve results through others who are not direct reports.
Do you have experience delivering large software solutions in agile environment - plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery on a scale?
Come build the future with us.
Key job responsibilities
• Experience leveraging formal project management and development methodologies on enterprise level engagements.
• Possesses a deep knowledge of project management best practices and how to apply them in an effective yet pragmatic way across, complex software projects.
• Understand technology principles and services of a cloud platform including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms and consumer facing technology.
• Ability to apply strategic thinking and demonstrate understanding of requirements to execute.
• Ability to make decisions guided by policies, procedures and business plan with limited guidance.
• Lead presales opportunities as well as project extensions
• Plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery. This includes developing and managing project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, defining success criteria, project milestones, and budgets.
• Ability to take ownership, work under pressure and meet deadlines on time.
• Ability to challenge, recommend and redirect teams as well as manage client expectations during the engagement.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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- Multiple years of experience leading software projects using Agile at scale
- Experience leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects
- Experience preparing business reports and presenting results to C-level executives (CIO, CEO, CTO, CISO, etc.) as well as to technical subject matter experts
- Fluency in German
- Understanding of the value proposition of the public cloud and experience delivering cloud engagements (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- AWS experience and certification(s)
- BS level technical degree or equivalent experience
- MS/MBA level technical degree or equivalent experience
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