Senior Delivery Lead - AI-Powered Cloud Programs

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engagement Manager for AWS ProServe’s Telco, Media & Entertainment, Gaming and Sports (TMEGS) Delivery Practice in New Jersey.

You will own delivery of complex, outcome-based cloud and AI programs, shaping scope with customer executives and delivering with disciplined change control and value realization. You will lead AI-enabled delivery across the lifecycle, collaborate with sales and solution architects, and manage mixed teams to ensure quality,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM field.
• 5+ years of cloud computing experience.
• 2+ years of leading multiple Agile teams concurrently or at scale experience.
• 5+ years of leading and delivering enterprise-level IT engagements.

Responsibilities

• Owning delivery of complex, outcome-based cloud and AI programs end to end, accountable for customer business outcomes, delivery quality and commercial performance.
• Working with sales and solution architects before signature to shape scope, define measurable outcomes and acceptance criteria, and confirm what we commit to is deliverable.
• Negotiating scope, milestones and trade-offs with customer executives, and managing fixed-price engagements through disciplined change control, earned-value tracking and margin protection.
• Managing engagement revenue and financial health: forecasting revenue against milestones, maintaining an accurate estimate at completion, driving timely milestone acceptance and billing, and identifying expansion opportunities that grow the customer relationship.
• Leading delivery teams that use AI across the lifecycle (requirements, design, code generation, testing and operations), and applying enough technical depth to challenge AI-generated output and make informed trade-offs on security, performance, scalability and cost.
• Orchestrating mixed teams of AWS builders, AWS Partner Network partners and customer-selected integrators to a single quality bar, with clear accountability, consistent acceptance criteria and automated quality gates.
• Driving customer-side change management and adoption, so the organization realizes the value of what we build.
• Reporting progress to senior stakeholders in terms of business value delivered, and acting on leading indicators of risk (velocity, environment stability, partner quality, team health) before they become escalations.
• Contributing reusable assets, patterns and AI-enabled delivery practices that make each engagement faster and more repeatable than the last

Skills

Leading Agile teams

Engagement management

Negotiation with executives

Business outcome focus

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM field

Tools

AWS certification

Project management certification (APM/CSM/PMI-ACP/PRINCE2)

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engagement Manager for AWS ProServe’s Telco, Media & Entertainment, Gaming and Sports (TMEGS) Delivery Practice in New Jersey.

You will own delivery of complex, outcome-based cloud and AI programs, shaping scope with customer executives and delivering with disciplined change control and value realization. You will lead AI-enabled delivery across the lifecycle, collaborate with sales and solution architects, and manage mixed teams to ensure quality,