Delivery Practice Manager - Data & AI/ML, AWS Professional Services

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Pay

$152,100 - $262,800 a year
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Full-time
 
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DESCRIPTION
The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking an experienced Delivery Practice Manager (DPM) to join our ProServe Shared Delivery Team (SDT) 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. 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 and or Engagement Managers working with customers and partners to architect and implement innovative solutions. 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. As a DPM you are primarily focused directly or through their teams, on understanding and defining business outcomes for customers by building trust, identifying applicable AWS Professional Services offerings, and creating proposals and SOW’s.
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.
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 Professional Services Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for:
Building and managing a high-performing team of Delivery Consultants
Collaborating with Delivery Consultants, Engagement Managers, Account Executives, and Cloud Architects to deploy solutions and provide input on new features
Developing and overseeing the implementation of innovative, forward-looking IT strategies for customers
Managing practice P&L, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery of customer engagements
Driving business development initiatives and exceed customer satisfaction targets

About the team
About AWS:
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
8+ years of experience in IT and/or Management Consulting, with at least 3 years in a people leadership role.
Experience managing IT transformation projects
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
Highly strategic and analytical, possessing experience in solving business, product, and technical challenges and direct people management experience, leading high-performing service line teams including business operations and financial management.
8+ years experience leading the design, development and deployment of complex data & analytics strategies and solutions at scale supporting Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries and geographies; Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Advanced technology degree or AWS Professional level certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred
Strong project management and resource management capabilities
Financial acumen with P&L management experience
Ability to navigate complex stakeholder relationships and drive change
Sales and negotiation skills for opportunity capture and proposal development
Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills with the ability to build and maintain C-level client relationships
Experience building data or machine learning pipelines, incl. deep learning, GenAI, LLM, etc. as well as hands on experience on AWS services like SageMaker and Bedrock, and programming skills such as Python, R, SQL, Java, Julia, Scala, Spark/Numpy/Pandas/scikit, JavaScript

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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.