DESCRIPTION

Would you like to become part of the team that is redefining the way IT is delivered to U.S. Department of Defense mission owners? Join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) World Wide Public Sector (WWPS) team working with the DoD on transitioning mission workload development to AWS. You will work with the AWS account managers, AWS solution architects, and AWS service team subject matter experts to remove obstacles, solve customer problems, and facilitate mission workload transformation. The ideal candidate will bring both system engineering and business development skills/interests to this position. The ideal candidate will draw upon exemplary technical and project management, critical thinking, problem solving skills, and a passion for creating reliable and maintainable solutions on AWS. The candidate should be open to new challenges, extremely good at multi-tasking, innovative, creative, self-directed, and a great team player. Candidates should drive continuous process improvement, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional business and software development teams to solve problems and implement new solutions. The technical delivery Manager will interact with a broad cross section of Amazon Web Services spanning a wide range of technologies to meet specific national security requirements and mission delivery.
Key job responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the Air Dominance & Deterrence AF Technical Delivery Team
• Meet regularly with DoD mission owners and mission workload development team leads to determine workload development/transition status, identify and remove development blockers, and develop plans for future enhancements.
• Solicit performance feedback, identify and eliminate blockers, identify and coordinate AWS resources needed to move workload development forward.
• Work with mission owners and workload development teams to coordinate access to AWS subject matter experts, solutions architects, and professional service engineers.
• Track and report workload transformation and capacity planning metrics to mission owners and AWS WWPS to ensure capacity and professional resources are provided ahead of demand.
• Meet regularly with DoD account managers to provide status, plan and manage transfer of new opportunities from prospect to workload in progress.
• Participate in and support DoD account manager customer engagements focused on moving from first-call to active project/program moving to AWS.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US citizen and must be able to obtain and hold a security clearance
For more information, visit https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/defense/
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Work/Life Balance
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience
• 2+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent
• Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar
  Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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  Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site

• Lead the Air Dominance & Deterrence AF Technical Delivery Team
• Meet regularly with DoD mission owners and mission workload development team leads to determine workload development/transition status, identify and remove development blockers, and develop plans for future enhancements.
• Solicit performance feedback, identify and eliminate blockers, identify and coordinate AWS resources needed to move workload development forward.
• Work with mission owners and workload development teams to coordinate access to AWS subject matter experts, solutions architects, and professional service engineers.
• Track and report workload transformation and capacity planning metrics to mission owners and AWS WWPS to ensure capacity and professional resources are provided ahead of demand.
• Meet regularly with DoD account managers to provide status, plan and manage transfer of new opportunities from prospect to workload in progress.
• Participate in and support DoD account manager customer engagements focused on moving from first-call to active project/program moving to AWS