Amazon Engagement Manager Worldwide Public Sector 

United States, Kansas 

540147434

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 responsibilitiesYou 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.This is a customer-facing role and you will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services as needed.About the team
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* 5+ years of customer-facing, large scale implementation across multiple cross-functional teams.
* 2+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise-level IT projects, at least 2 years of which followed documented methodologies such as Agile, and used project management tool sets (Confluence, Jira, RallyDev, VersionOne, Taiga, etc) and source code management products.
* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
* Experience implementing cloud technologies.
* Experience in managing project financials, revenue forecasts and contracts.

* Has at least two active project management certifications (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2).
* Shareable experience managing one or more projects with a combination of 10+ resources, 12+ months, or $500k+ in contract value.
* Experience building artifacts to support external and internal stakeholders to resolve blockers.
* Has presented to C-level executives (CIO, CEO, CTO, CISO, etc.) as well as to technical subject matter experts.
* Experience in consulting professional services.