Regional Portfolio Manager, Colo Regional Engineering

As the Regional Portfolio Manager you will manage the completion of quality assurance and quality control reviews, and support the progress of design drawings, specifications and documents prepared during the engineering design process in order to ensure regulatory and legal compliance. You will work alongside internal partner teams such as Design Engineering, Data Center Supply Solution (DCSS), Power and Cooling (PAC), Security, Controls, and Commissioning to build Data Centers that directly support our customers. You will also communicate with external stakeholder design consultants.

AWS Regional Portfolio Managers have knowledge of the commercial industry design and construction process, experience reviewing technical and contractual documentation, and strong communication and document writing skills. In this role, you will deep dive documentation for completeness, update and create procedures to optimize workflows, and look for improvement opportunities. As the Regional Portfolio Manager you will manage the intake of new capacity projects, drive SLA compliance for review of vendor documentation, promote documentation quality, compliance, and completeness, and update stakeholders with progress of the final workflow documentation processing. High volumes of documentation review are part of this role and you will need to exercise strong judgement on how to communicate and engage stakeholders through various tools. The role provides flexibility and potential for growth into a future Regional Design Management function.

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities
- Manage simultaneous projects’ engineering drawings, specifications, and documents and run the workflows where you engage with the correct stakeholders across the organization to raise the bar in the quality and the coherence of the content of the package provided.
- Ensure that the team has performed quality review of technical documentation for accuracy and contract compliance.
- Ensure that the engineering quality assurance and engineering quality control reviews performed for all design drawings, prior to submission to Construction for builds.
- Provide coordination of all engineering and architectural specifications, design drawings, and tracking submittals for projects.
- Support the Regional Engineering Managers to track the completion for the documentation at various design phases and during construction hand off, including but not limited to drawings, specifications, bill of materials, calculations, etc
- Manage project archiving, tracking, processing and filing activities, assist in naming standard, versioning schema, etc.
- Set up training initiatives on portfolio management platforms for our internal and external partners.
- Prepare ad hoc reports on project’s progress, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and progress tracking.
- Collaborate with technical teams in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to edit and raise the bar on high-quality technical documentation.
- Configuration Analyst/System Owner for design engineering documents - Collating design documents from partner teams, and owning a single document package.
- Lead and drive process improvements (short-term wins) as well as process design / redesign (long-term wins) efforts.
- Manage a portfolio of capacity delivery projects in an assigned region - new capacity construction projects - Hybrid, Colo (MTB/STB), Edge (to a lesser extent), in addition to ad-hoc, deep dive and fast track audits, as applicable.
- Maintain and add user accounts, security groups, and permission access levels.
- Support the Regional Engineering Managers to track the completion for the key data centers’ life-cycle deliverables, kingpin goals and initiative / strategy paper preparation.
- Collect the data for regional QBR and prepare and edit the document in alignment with regional managers.
- Attend key stakeholder team meetings, take minutes and communicate updates or requirements.
- Conduct audits to ensure processes are being followed.
- Up to 25% travel may be required.

A day in the life
As a Regional Portfolio Manager, you'll focus on managing the engineering documentation lifecycle for multiple data center capacity projects simultaneously. Your day might include reviewing technical drawings and specifications for accuracy and regulatory compliance, coordinating with Design Engineering, Power and Cooling, Security, and Commissioning teams to resolve documentation gaps, and updating stakeholders on project progress through various communication channels. You'll also dive deep into process workflows to identify optimization opportunities, mentor internal and external partners on portfolio management platforms, and conduct audits to ensure consistent adherence to established procedures. Your work directly influences how quickly and safely we can deliver new data center capacity to our customers.

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