About the Job
Would you like a career that gives you opportunities to help customers and partners use cloud computing web services to do big new things faster, at lower cost? Do you want to be part of history and transform businesses through cloud computing adoption? At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring a technical Engagement Manager to lead AWS consultants, partners, and client teams.
Engagement Managers manage and deliver AWS cloud products and services that enable our customers to realize their business objectives. These professional services engagements focus on the full platform of AWS customer solutions to help our customers and partners remove constraints and accelerate their journey to AWS.
As Engagement Manager, you will manage projects independently and also deliver as part of larger teams. You will own work streams end to end, starting by understanding the customer required outcomes, then leading the team through delivery, managing customer expectations, proactively handling risks and following an effective governance structure, in order to deliver solutions tied to the customer business objectives.
This is a customer-facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed.
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Work Conditions
- You will be required to travel to client locations.
- Flexibility is part of our working culture to ensure work-life harmony.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.
- 10+ years’ experience leading the delivery of IT projects in a global enterprise environment.
- Experience working in Agile engagements, understanding of the value proposition of the public cloud.
- Understanding of cloud technology principles and services including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms and consumer facing technology.
- Experience leveraging formal project management methodologies on enterprise level engagements and with software development life cycle (SDLC).
Preferred Qualifications
- Solid experience as project manager, project lead, engagement manager or similar role.
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or Math.
- Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3).
- Experience presenting business, project and solution topics to audiences of different roles including AWS and customer’s technical experts, project managers and line of business directors.
- Experience with Agile Project Management (APM) toolsets (Jira, RallyDev, VersionOne, Taiga, etc.) and team collaboration tools (Confluence, etc.), as well as Professional Services Automation (PSA) tools.
