Description As a Senior Engagement Managers, you will manage internal AWS, external partner, and customer teams. You will drive engagements and focus on AWS solutions to help customers and partners remove constraints and accelerate their journey to AWS. In this role, you will plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery. This includes developing and managing project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, project milestones, budgets and defining success criteria. In this role, you will guide individuals, teams or multiple groups to analyze project goals, create plans to achieve those goals, and then guiding AWS team members, customer stakeholders/SMEs, and potentially other third parties to achieve those goals while understanding the customer environment and addressing any limitations to execution. Interfaces with various customers and internal AWS stakeholders which consists of senior leadership teams (C-level execs, SVP/VP, Directors) and project-level resources such as SMEs and influence, negotiate, resolve conflicts and achieve results through others who are not direct reports. Do you have experience delivering large software solutions in agile environment - plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery on a scale? Come build the future with us. Key job responsibilities - Experience leveraging formal project management and development methodologies on enterprise level engagements. - Possesses a deep knowledge of project management best practices and how to apply them in an effective yet pragmatic way across, complex software projects. - Understand technology principles and services of a cloud platform including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms and consumer facing technology. - Ability to apply strategic thinking and demonstrate understanding of requirements to execute. - Ability to make decisions guided by policies, procedures and business plan with limited guidance. - Lead presales opportunities as well as project extensions - Plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery. This includes developing and managing project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, defining success criteria, project milestones, and budgets. - Ability to take ownership, work under pressure and meet deadlines on time. - Ability to challenge, recommend and redirect teams as well as manage client expectations during the engagement. 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 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. 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Basic Qualifications - Multiple years of experience leading software projects using Agile at scale - Experience leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects - Experience preparing business reports and presenting results to C-level executives (CIO, CEO, CTO, CISO, etc.) as well as to technical subject matter experts - Fluency in German Preferred Qualifications - Understanding of the value proposition of the public cloud and experience delivering cloud engagements (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) - AWS experience and certification(s) - BS level technical degree or equivalent experience - MS/MBA level technical degree or equivalent experience Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. 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