Security Delivery Practice Manager

Amazon; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global cloud services provider is seeking an experienced Delivery Practice Manager to lead a team of Delivery Consultants in Riyadh. This role involves managing IT consultancy projects for enterprise customers, ensuring timely delivery, and exceeding customer satisfaction targets. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in IT consulting and proven skills in program management. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in cloud computing solutions within a dynamic and innovative environment.

Benefits

Flexible working culture

Access to mentorship and career growth opportunities

Inclusive team culture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT consulting with IT Transformation in customer-facing roles.
• 3+ years leading project managers to deliver concurrent projects.
• Experience in large-scale enterprise IT projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a high-performing team of Delivery Consultants.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to deploy solutions.
• Manage practice P&L and ensure timely delivery of engagements.

Skills

IT consulting

Program or engagement management

Cloud computing

Customer relationship management

Enterprise architecture

Education

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

Job description

Overview

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking an experienced 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 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 DPM you will be responsible for building and managing a team of Delivery Consultants and/or Engagement Managers working with customers and partners to architect and implement innovative solutions. You\'ll routinely engage with Director, C-level executives, and governing boards, while 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. You are primarily focused directly or through your teams on understanding and defining business outcomes for customers by building trust, identifying applicable AWS Professional Services offerings, and creating proposals and SOWs.

Your experience gained leading teams within the technology sector will equip you with the ability to optimize team performance through implementing tailored people development plans, ensuring your teams are aligned to customer needs, and have the skills and capacity to address customer outcomes. Possessing the ability to translate technical concepts into business value for customers and then talk in technical depth with teams, you will cultivate strong customer, Amazon Global Sales (AGS), and ProServe team relationships which enables exceptional business performance. DPMs success is primarily measured by consistently delivering customer engagements by supporting sales through scoping technical requirements for an engagement, delivering engagements on time, within budget, and exceeding customer expectations.

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

As an experienced Professional Services Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for:

• 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 P&L, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery of customer engagements
• Driving business development initiatives and exceed customer satisfaction targets

About the team

ABOUT AWS:

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Why AWS

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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.

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Mentorship and Career Growth

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AWS Global Services

AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design, build, operate, and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services, upskill with AWS Training and Certification, optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services, and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners, AWS Sovereign Cloud, AWS International Product, and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You’ll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT consulting/management with IT Transformation in customer-facing roles experience
• 3+ years of program or engagement management work leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing transition challenges
• Experience in IT consulting/management with IT Transformation in a customer-facing role
• Experience in program or engagement management, leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects
• Experience in enterprise architecture including virtualization technologies & distributed architecture
• Experience managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of enterprise IT management frameworks like COBIT or ITIL
• Experience integrating AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP)
• Experience with customer relationship management, especially C-suite level customer engagement
• Experience with design of modern, scalable delivery models for technology consulting 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:

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