Senior Engagement Manager, AWS Professional Services

- Experience working as a Scrum Master or Product Owner across multiple cross-functional teams

- Experience in leading the delivery of IT projects with external customers or equivalent

- Experience in program or engagement management, leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects

- Experience with Agile and project management toolsets like Jira, Asana or Miro

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

- English and Spanish fluency are required for this role

- AWS certifications

- Experience in delivering customer engagements in a professional services role

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

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

- Experience in large scale migration- data center to cloud

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

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & 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.

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.

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a highly skilled and versatile Engagement Manager (EM) to join our team and lead the delivery of complex cloud solution projects. In this role you will combine technical expertise with strong project leadership skills to drive successful implementations of AWS-based solutions for our clients. You will bridge business requirements with technical solutions, facilitating technical discussions and ensuring alignment with customer outcomes. Applying AWS frameworks like Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Framework while demonstrating technical credibility across diverse stakeholders, you will distill customer needs into clear technical requirements, decompose complex problems, and make informed trade-off decisions considering performance, scalability, security, and business impact.

Possessing strong technology and program/project management experience, you will validate technical solutions against business goals, recognize when additional technical evaluation is needed, and manage technical risks. You will be expected to achieve and maintain relevant AWS certifications, develop domain-specific expertise, and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and business audiences. As you progress, you’ll lead increasingly complex technical projects, shape cross-organizational technical strategies, and establish best practices in your domain. In this role you will apply your management and leadership capabilities to successfully execute project plans, proactively identify and manage risks, resolve issues, escalate when appropriate, and drive projects to successful completion, while exceeding customer expectation

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies and industries.

Key job responsibilities

As an experienced technology program/project manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading and managing complex cloud migration and implementation projects

• Leveraging comprehensive knowledge of AWS services, architectures, and best practices to guide technical decisions and strategic planning

• Bridging business requirements with technical solutions, facilitating engineering discussions and ensuring alignment with customer business outcomes

• Distilling customer needs into clear technical requirements and map them to business outcomes

• Decomposing complex technical problems into actionable, deliverable solutions

• Contributing to technical documentation and define documentation standards

The position may require up to 50% travel to customer sites.