Senior Delivery Leader, Public Sector Professional Services

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at an innovative cloud services leader seeking a Senior Delivery Leader to drive excellence in public sector engagements. This role involves leading specialized teams, overseeing project delivery quality, and fostering strong relationships with customers and partners. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, ensuring high standards and exceptional service delivery. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this forward-thinking company offers a culture that values work-life balance and continuous career development. If you're passionate about technology and leadership, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Mentorship programs

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Career development resources

Work-life balance support

Qualifications

• Experience in IT advisory services with a strong technical background.
• Ability to lead teams and manage complex projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of customized engagements with strategic customers.
• Develop and mentor high-performing teams of delivery consultants.

Skills

Technology-Driven Professional Services

Management Consulting

Strategic Engagement Delivery

Workforce Planning

Business Management/Operations

Partner Management

AWS Technology and Services

Education

Degree in Business or related field

Tools

AWS Services

Job description

Senior Delivery Leader, Public Sector Professional Services

Job ID: 2804885 | Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

ProServe Public Sector is seeking a new Senior Practice Manager, Shared Delivery Team (SDT) to lead our fast-growing AWS ProServe’s delivery specialists in Australia. This leader will oversee the high-quality delivery of a variety of customized engagements with our customers. The leader will lead SDT to support the customer segment teams with pre-sales and the scoping, sizing estimating and development of complex, multi-year solutions for customers. The ideal candidate will have a background in Technology-Driven Professional Services, Management Consulting, Strategic Engagement Delivery, Workforce Planning, and Business Management/ Operations, and Partner Management. If you are someone who cares deeply about building an environment where employees will thrive, grow and achieve their career goals, knows how to thrive in an agile, fast-paced, growth environment, insists on incredibly high standards, and is willing to dive deep to get the job done.

AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective AWS customer experience, best practices, and obsessing about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product, service, and training teams, to deliver the right solutions and drive feature innovations for our customers across all industries. 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.

Key job responsibilities

1. Hire and develop specialized business and technical talent in multiple specialty areas (e.g., Advisory, Engagement Management, Data/Analytics, Application Development, Security, Infrastructure, Migration, GenAI).
2. Responsible for the successful delivery of projects with our most strategic customers across all our specialties.
3. Oversee the high-quality delivery of a variety of customized engagements with partners and customers in the commercial and public sectors.
4. Attract and develop top talent to build high performing teams of Professional Services Delivery Consultants with superior technical depth and outstanding customer relationship skills.
5. Enable communities and career development for technical specialties.
6. Collaborate with customer practice managers and account managers to develop strong customer and partner relationships.
7. Drive a consistent project and delivery experience for our customers through our Engagement Manager community.
8. Guardianship of project delivery quality across a region (Delivery Quality Bar raisers), providing oversight of engagements, leading scope definition and statement of work development with customers.
9. Implement effective delivery mechanisms, including centralization, to decrease effort and increase speed for our customers achieving their business outcomes.
10. Own the customer feedback, corrective actions, and distribute learnings in a way that continually increases customer satisfaction.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

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 empowers 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.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Previous consulting/IT advisory services experience; technical depth and the credibility to sell complex transformational IT consulting engagements.
2. Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguity and scale systems, processes, and teams.
3. Previous experience in an organization that has built and/or sold products/platforms.
4. Ability to develop scalable/repeatable solutions across multiple lines of businesses and customers.
5. Track record of leading technical teams and ability to distill technical information to technical or non-technical customers.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience in Public Sector Consulting Delivery.
2. Certification and Experience with AWS Technology and Services.

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:

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.

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