Senior Delivery Practice Manager - AI/ML, Professional Services

Amazon Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud service provider in Greater London is looking for an experienced Snr Delivery Practice Manager to lead a team of Delivery Consultants. This role requires managing enterprise customer projects while driving business development initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in IT consulting, team leadership, and cloud services. The company values diversity and promotes a culture of learning, providing ample opportunities for career growth and mentorship.

Benefits

Mentorship and career growth opportunities

Work-life balance initiatives

Inclusive team culture

Qualifications

• Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape.
• Experience with consulting practice leadership, managing large teams.
• Experience with enterprise architecture and cloud integration.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a high-performing team of Delivery Consultants.
• Collaborate with various teams to deploy solutions and provide input.
• Develop IT strategies for customers and ensure project delivery.

Skills

Knowledge of compliance and security standards

Knowledge of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

Consulting practice leadership

Experience with enterprise architecture

Experience integrating AWS cloud services

Design of scalable delivery models

Vertical industry sales experience

International sales experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field

Job description

Overview

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking an experienced Snr 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 Snr DPM you will be responsible for building and managing a team of Delivery Consultants 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 Snr 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 SOWs.

Responsibilities

• 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, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery of customer engagements
• Driving business development initiatives and exceeding customer satisfaction targets

About the team

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below, 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 empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including CORE and AmazeCon 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. 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.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing transition challenges
• Experience with consulting practice leadership as manager of managers with team size 50+ and P&L responsibility
• Experience with enterprise architecture including virtualization technologies and distributed architecture
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field
• Experience integrating AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP)
• Experience with design of modern, scalable delivery models for technology consulting services
• Experience with vertical industry sales and delivery work of contemporary services and solutions
• Experience with international sales and delivery work with global F500 enterprise customers and partners

Additional information

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