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Job summary
At Amazon Web Services (AWS) we are leading the cloud revolution. As a Program Manager (PM), alongside the AWS account team, you will work closely with customers in the UK National Security and Defence space, to enable their multi-year journey to the cloud. In this new, highly visible role, you will ensure that all AWS teams work together effectively and efficiently to deliver for the customer.


Key job responsibilities
You will be a trusted advisor to your customers. You will leverage your program management, technical, organisational, and transformation expertise to understand your customer's business and strategic goals, translate them into an executable plan, and drive the implementation to success by working with the customer, AWS, and our partners. You will understand your customers biggest IT challenges, and provide prescriptive guidance, based on AWS best practices, to guide them through the obstacles. You will take end-to-end ownership of a diverse range of projects and initiatives, utilising your communication skills to interface with and influence a broad range of multi-disciplinary teams (sales, solutions architecture, support, product, professional services, partners).

The PM role could be responsible for varied cloud transformational programs (technical, operational, organisational, education) that span across traditional IT teams and business units. With a deep understanding of your customer's business vision, culture and processes, you will be your customer's voice within AWS, ensuring that their needs are accurately communicated to AWS leadership, product, and engineering teams. You will evangelise AWS services and influence customers to adopt the right solution at the right time. You should be passionate about delivering a great customer experience by deploying AWS solutions, driving innovation, and delivering successful migration programs.

Successful candidates will have a program management background, be detail driven, and have experience in managing virtual teams to deliver complex programs. You will be a passionate and proven leader with the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, communicate confidently at both the executive and project team level, and collaborate with a wide range of technical and non-technical teams, regardless of geographical or organisational boundaries. You will be a natural problem solver with a cool head, that can deal with ambiguity and work autonomously to deliver results for your customer.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven background in leading complex, large scale, IT/technical/engineering/Business Transformation Programs
• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, maths or equivalent experience
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to effectively deliver information at the C-suite/VP level
• Self-motivated problem solver who thrives in a dynamic and customer-focused environment
• Current AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification or the willingness and aptitude to obtain one within 3 months of onboarding
• This position requires that the candidate selected be willing to attain and maintain a current Developed Vetting (DV) clearance and satisfy other security related requirements

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience across different industry verticals, including UK Public Sector.
• Experience communicating between Public and Private Sector organisations
• Direct experience in implementing AWS/cloud services.
• Project and Program Management Certifications such as - PMP, APM, Prince2, PgMP, SAFe or SCRUM/Agile.

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