Senior Delivery Leader, Public Sector Professional Services

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Senior Delivery Leader to spearhead their Public Sector Professional Services. This role involves overseeing high-quality project delivery, developing top talent, and fostering strong customer relationships. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, possesses deep technical expertise, and is committed to delivering exceptional results. Join a team that values diversity, work-life balance, and continuous growth, where your contributions will directly impact the success of clients across various sectors. If you're passionate about leading teams and driving innovation, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working culture

Mentorship and career growth opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Work-life balance support

Qualifications

• Proven experience in consulting and IT advisory services.
• Ability to lead technical teams and sell complex IT solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of customized engagements for strategic customers.
• Hire and develop specialized business and technical talent.

Skills

Consulting/IT advisory services

Technical depth

Business Management/Operations

Strategic Engagement Delivery

Workforce Planning

Partner Management

Project delivery quality

Tools

AWS Technology and 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 are 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 mechanism, including centralization, to decrease effort and increase speed for our customer achieving their business outcome.
10. Own the customer feedbacks, corrective actions and distribute learnings in a way that continually increases customer satisfaction.

About the team

Diverse Experiences
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 empower 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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