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Amazon Senior Practice Manager - Federal Government, Professional Services in Ottawa, Ontario

Description

Are you passionate about building and leading high-performance teams to lead IT transformations within the Public Sector? Do you love leading an enterprise customer through a variety of projects involving IT strategy, distributed architecture implementation, and Cloud migrations? Can you lead world class teams that drive breakthrough business outcomes using new IT deliver models?

AWS Professional Services is seeking a consulting Senior Practice Manager who has experience working with Public Sector especially with the Federal Government of Canada. As a Sr. Practice Manager, you will be responsible for building and managing a team of professional services consultants working with customers and partners to architect and implement innovative solutions. You will routinely engage with Director, VP, C-level executives and governing boards. You will be responsible for capturing opportunity and driving engagement.

Key job responsibilities

• You will work closely with partner teams; envision business development initiatives through thought leadership; provide portfolio guidance and oversight; while working backwards from the needs of our customers.

• You bring a diverse IT and/or Management Consulting background and knowledge of industry IT trends within the Public Sector space, leveraging this credibility as a strategic advisor to our customers, partners and internally across AWS.

• You're able to craft an innovative, forward-looking strategy while clearly outlining the investment and multi-step go-to-market plan necessary to help AWS customers lead the changes to IT strategy, policies, processes, people, governance and partnerships.

• As a member of the AWS Professional Services team, you are joining a team that invests in your success by providing comprehensive learning and mentorship programs.

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.

Hybrid Work

We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our Canada Amazon offices.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ Experience leading consulting verticals with the Canadian Federal Government, Canadian Crown Corporations or Canadian Provinces.

• 10+ years leading advisory services team or vertical.

• 7+ years consulting practice leadership experience as manager with P&L responsibility.

• 7+ years of experience selling and delivering technology consulting services.

• 7+ Experience with providing strategic, consultative services in a sales or advisory services environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current or former CTO/CIO, Vice President or consulting firm Partner who has helped transform the IT organization of multi-national enterprises

• High-level of skill communicating and collaborating effectively across internal and external organizations, including sales, solution architects and customers

• Experience attracting new talent, developing team capabilities, and performing people management responsibilities

• Experience in a fast-paced, startup (or startup-like) environment and experience

• Proven experience migrating production enterprise applications to Public and Private Cloud

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in information technology or computer science or equivalent experience

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 status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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