Senior Engagement Manager, AWS Professional Services at Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services; Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services in Madrid, MD, ES is seeking a Senior Engagement Manager within AWS Professional Services to lead delivery of complex cloud solution projects. You will combine technical credibility with project leadership to drive successful implementations and align customer outcomes with business goals.

This role requires experience managing multiple projects, strong knowledge of AWS services, and ability to decompose problems, facilitate discussions, and map requirements to solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience as Scrum Master or Product Owner across cross‑functional teams.
• Proven delivery of IT projects with external customers.
• Experience leading programs with multiple concurrent projects.
• Proficient with Jira, Asana or Miro and Agile project management.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; English and Spanish fluent.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage complex cloud migration and implementation projects.
• Guide technical decisions and strategic planning using AWS services and best practices.
• Bridge business requirements with technical solutions and map to outcomes.
• Decompose complex problems into actionable deliverables and document standards.
• Drive projects to successful completion while managing risks.

Skills

Scrum Master / Product Owner

Delivery of IT projects

Program / engagement management

Agile, Jira, Asana, Miro

English & Spanish fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Asana

Miro

Job description

Apply for Senior Engagement Manager, AWS Professional Services at Amazon Web Services in Madrid, MD, ES. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

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, elevate 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

• 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

About the team

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• AWS certification
• 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)

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