The Amazon Web Services Professional Services team is looking for a Delivery Practice Manager (DPM) that can manage, develop and guide customers in their adoption of AWS Cloud solutions, including innovative solutions around DevOps.
The DPM will focus on FS customers and DevOps, and will manage a team of direct reports. The DPM will develop a long-term plan to develop the right skills across its team. The team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer need. The DPM also acts as a trusted advisor for our Enterprise customers. The role includes all aspects of people management, relationship development, delivery oversight, and program management in their accounts.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Key job responsibilities
Build and manage a Professional Services team with a specific focus on sales support, delivery success, and best practices.
Hire, develop and retain top talent. Set objectives, manage performance and coach your team to help them achieve their career goals.
Oversee delivery of projects, ensure high quality, on time and on budget delivery and customer satisfaction. Mitigation of delivery risks and issues.
Collaborate with vertical teams in charge of end-to-end relationship with Enterprise customers to develop bold cloud strategies, leveraging technical or IT Advisory / IT Transformation skills to understand customers' business drivers and application portfolio and support the full cycle from pre-sales to project delivery.
Key job responsibilities
Build and manage a Professional Services team with a specific focus on sales support, delivery success, and best practices.
Hire, develop and retain top talent. Set objectives, manage performance and coach your team to help them achieve their career goals.
Oversee delivery of projects, ensure high quality, on time and on budget delivery and customer satisfaction. Mitigation of delivery risks and issues.
Collaborate with vertical teams in charge of end-to-end relationship with Enterprise customers to develop bold cloud strategies, leveraging technical or IT Advisory / IT Transformation skills to understand customers' business drivers and application portfolio and support the full cycle from pre-sales to project delivery.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Do you have consulting leadership experience deploying digital, data, technology strategy and execution within Fortune 500 enterprise organisation? Have you built and led successful consulting practices? Do you have broad technical skills and experience across Cloud, Innovation, Infrastructure, ML/AI, Data and Analytics, IoT and High-Performance Computing? Can you build, lead and influence practice managers and consultants in a professional services team to deliver these new capabilities on the AWS platform to our enterprise customers?
At AWS, we are looking for a Senior Practice Manager with a successful record of leading enterprise customers through a variety of transformative projects involving cloud technology topics such as Digital, ML/AI, data analytics, IoT, high performance compute and innovation; delivering business outcomes that contribute to our customers' transformation journey. An SPM will focus on a geography and will manage a team of direct reports (Practice mangers). The SPM will develop a long-term plan to develop the right skills across the team, influence the go-to-market strategy within the region and collaborate across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
7+ years delivering Consulting / Professional Services
5+ years experience in hiring, developing and leading IT consultants
Solid, hands-on experience delivering business value to customers with Cloud-based data solutions
Transformation to actively support the delivery of projects.
Has presented to IT executives as well as to technical subject matter experts. Routinely engages at these levels with customers, as well as with their consulting partners.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
15+ years’ hands on experience delivering business value to customers with technology transformation, cloud solutions, advanced analytics and innovation.
Has presented change management and transformation straegies to customer C-suite as well as to technical subject matter experts.
Routinely engages at these levels with customers, as well as with their consulting partners.
Masters Degree or equivalent experience.
Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments at FS customers.
Demonstrated knowledge of Cloud-based data solutions.
Ability to communicate complex topics to an audience with various functional knowledge.
Strong organizational and project management skills with an ability to manage numerous, competing demands from internal and external stakeholders and customers.Enjoys working in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $152,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $262,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.