Engagement Manager

Job description

DESCRIPTION

AWS Engagement Managers seek to understand our customers' needs, their missions, how success is defined, and ensure that we are exceeding expectations in delivering and developing solutions. Engagement Managers lead individuals, small teams, or groups of teams. Engagement Managers play a leadership role in scoping requirements with customers, analyzing project goals, creating a plan to achieve those goals. They drive the AWS team members, customer Stakeholders/SMEs, and potentially other third parties to achieve those goals while understanding the client environment and mitigating any limitations to execution.

AWS Engagement Managers are responsible for managing scope, schedule, and cost. Our Engagement Managers leverage AWS's agile delivery methodology to manage project teams consisting of business and technical resources. Engagement Managers use their management and leadership capabilities to successfully execute project plans, proactively identify and manage risks, resolve issues, escalate when appropriate, and drive projects to successful completion, while exceeding customer expectations.

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Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 4+ years Project Management / Engagement Management experience managing enterprise-level IT projects
· 1+ year experience managing projects using Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile methodologies
· 1+ year of project management best practices and how to apply them in an effective yet pragmatic way across large, complex projects
· 1+ year of experience with US Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and US Government contracting
· 1+ year of experience in project management tool sets and source code management products
· This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements.