Senior Customer Solutions Manager, Global Financial Services

Amazon • New York, NY

12d • $169,000 - $228,600 • Onsite

About The Position

AWS is seeking a Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) to join our Global Financial Services (GFS) team to work with a leading global Tier-1 bank. As a CSM, you will help customers realize sustained business value by accelerating their cloud transformation journey and driving innovation through advanced technologies including Generative AI, data analytics, and modern cloud-native architectures. This role requires a passion for shaping the future of the financial services industry, translating customer objectives into actions that realize long-term value through innovation. The ideal candidate possesses the business and technical savvy to earn trust with C-level executives and project team members alike, and has experience delivering transformations for large enterprises with global operations. At AWS, we value critical thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to deal with ambiguity. The role demands attention to detail, excellent problem-solving abilities, and exemplary communication skills. Technical expertise and operational excellence will influence decisions and help drive robust customer solutions. We seek individuals who innovate, use data to make decisions, and can express themselves thoughtfully, with a passion for delivering a great customer experience and exceeding goals. As a trusted customer advocate, you will help a large global financial services organization understand best practices around adopting advanced cloud-based solutions — including Generative AI, modern data platforms, and cloud-native application development — and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. Together with the customer, you will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS. We are also looking for individuals with a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and delivery challenges, with a particular interest in how AI/ML technologies can transform banking operations. As an AWS Customer Solutions Manager (CSM), you will establish a deep understanding of your customer's business vision, culture and processes. You will lead the successful adoption of AWS, guiding customers through the people, process, and technology facets of their cloud transformation journey. You will serve as the customer's cloud journey coach and voice of customer within AWS, evangelizing customer needs to AWS leadership, product, and engineering teams. You leverage your communication, program management, technical, operations, and transformation acumen to understand your customer's strategic goals, translate them into an executable plan, and deliver successful, often industry-changing, customer outcomes on AWS. Successful candidates are motivated by the customer's long-term success, have a mix of technical and business expertise, are data and detail driven, and have experience delivering large-scale programs. You are a proven leader with the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, communicate confidently at both the executive and team levels. You collaborate with a wide range of technical and non-technical teams, while navigating across geographical and organizational boundaries. You are a natural problem solver who steers through ambiguity and leads autonomously. The Global Financial Services (GFS) team at AWS works with the world's largest banks, insurers, capital markets firms, and payment providers to drive cloud adoption at scale. Our Customer Solutions Managers serve as trusted advisors to C-suite executives and technology leaders, helping them navigate complex regulatory environments while accelerating innovation. We operate across all major financial hubs globally and pride ourselves on deep domain expertise combined with technical excellence. AWS values diverse experiences and encourages candidates to apply even if they don't meet all qualifications. We are continuously raising our performance bar to become Earth's Best Employer, offering endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and career-advancing resources. We value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility in our working culture.

Requirements

• 7+ 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
• 3+ 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

Nice To Haves

• PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe certification
• cloud certification like AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
• Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage
• Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or equivalent
• Experience in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps
• Experience selling cloud solutions

Responsibilities

• Cloud Adoption & Transformation: Work backwards from the customer's cloud business case to define the cloud migration / digital transformation strategy, guiding people, process, and operating model changes for customer success.
• AI/ML & GenAI Enablement: Help the customer identify and prioritize high-impact GenAI and AI/ML use cases. Guide exploration of Amazon Bedrock, large language models, RAG architectures, and modern data services to solve complex banking challenges. You will help drive transformation of customers' software development lifecycle (SDLC) with AI, and enable end-to-end workflows with Agentic AI and end-user AI productivity tools.
• People & Operating Model Change: Drive customers' people and operating model change for effective adoption of AWS. Establish education strategy to upskill technical and non-technical roles.
• Migration & Modernization: Accelerate migrations and broader adoption of AWS at scale. Partner with customers to install and mature Cloud Business Office capabilities.
• Governance & Executive Engagement: Work with customers to establish Cloud Leadership team and broader governance structures. Earn trust across all levels of the organization.
• Value Realization: Establish and manage an outcome-driven adoption plan. Report on customer maturity and adoption progress. Define success criteria and track measurable business outcomes.
• Thought Leadership: Knowledge share success mechanisms, mentor junior CSMs, and influence industry trends in cloud adoption for financial services.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior