Senior Delivery Practice Manager, AWS Professional Services

DESCRIPTION:

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) is seeking an experienced Senior Delivery Practice Manager (DPM) to join our Team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll manage a team of ProServe Delivery Consultants while supporting AWS enterprise customers through transformative projects leveraging AWS technologies including Agentic AI, Generative AI, Application Modernisation, Data and Analytics. You'll leverage your IT and/or Management Consulting background to serve as a strategic advisor to customers, partners, and internal AWS teams.
As a DPM you will be responsible for building and managing a team of Delivery Consultants working with customers and partners to architect and implement innovative solutions using AWS's most advanced emerging services. You'll routinely engage with Director, C-level executives, and governing boards, whilst being responsible for opportunity capture and driving engagement delivery. You'll work closely with partner teams; drive business development initiatives through thought leadership; provide portfolio guidance and oversight; and meet and exceed customer satisfaction targets.
Your experience gained leading teams within the technology sector, will equip you with the ability to optimize team performance through implementing tailored people development plans, ensuring your teams are aligned to customer needs, and have the skills and capacity to address customer outcomes. Possessing the ability to translate technical concepts into business value for customers and then talk in technical depth with teams, you will cultivate strong customer, Amazon Global Sales (AGS), and ProServe team relationships which enables exceptional business performance. DPMs success is primarily measured by consistently delivering customer engagements by supporting sales through scoping technical requirements for an engagement, delivering engagements on time, within budget, and exceeding customer expectations. They will hold the Practice total utilization goal and be responsible for optimizing team performance.


Key job responsibilities
As an experienced Professional Services Senior Delivery Practice Manager, you will be responsible for:
● Building and managing a high-performing team of Delivery Consultants specializing in emerging technologies and industry solutions
● Collaborating with Delivery Consultants, Engagement Managers, Account Executives, and Cloud Architects to deploy solutions leveraging AWS services
● Developing and overseeing the implementation of innovative, forward-looking IT strategies for customers across Mining, Energy, Banking & Insurance, Media & Entertainment, and Manufacturing industries
● Managing practice P&L, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery of customer engagements while closing supply-demand gaps through strategic workforce planning
● Driving business development initiatives in nascent technology markets, positioning AWS ProServe as the trusted delivery partner for emerging technologies
● Implementing Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) operating models for high-complexity strategic accounts requiring embedded consulting approaches

A day in the life
AWS Professional Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You'll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

About the team
About the team
AWS 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.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field
- Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing transition challenges
- Experience with consulting practice leadership as manager of managers with team size 50+ and P&L responsibility
- Experience with enterprise architecture including virtualization technologies and distributed architecture

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience integrating AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP)
- Experience with design of modern, scalable delivery models for technology consulting services
- Experience with international sales and delivery work with global F500 enterprise customers and partners
- Experience with vertical industry sales and delivery work of contemporary services and solutions

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
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