Technical Lead (AWS / PYTHON - Platform & Microservices)
West Midlands based office - remote role with fortnightly office trips
90K - 102K
We're currently partnering with a market leading, technology driven organisation undergoing a major digital evolution, and they're looking to appoint an experienced Technical Lead to help shape the next phase of their platform engineering journey.
This is a high impact opportunity for a hands on technical leader to take ownership of a business critical cloud platform, driving architectural direction, engineering excellence, and long term platform scalability. You'll work closely with architecture, digital and product teams to define standards, modernise services, and build robust, scalable solutions that support significant organisational growth.
Technical Leadership & Architecture responsibilities
- Define and evolve technical architecture in collaboration with enterprise architecture stakeholders
- Shape deployment, configuration and operational practices to drive consistency, automation and reliability
- Design and evolve AWS based serverless microservices and APIs
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance delivery pace, cost and long term maintainability
- Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, resilience and operational supportability
- Contribute to infrastructure as code approaches for service deployment and platform evolution
Platform Ownership & Engineering Excellence
- Take ownership of overall platform health and technical quality
- Ensure systems are stable, observable and well supported in production
- Drive improvements across:
- Testing and code quality
- CI/CD pipelines and release management
- Infrastructure as code practices
- Enhance resilience, performance and operational reliability
- Ensure technical documentation is maintained and knowledge is shared across the wider engineering function
Essential Experience
- Strong hands on backend development experience with Python
- Deep expertise in AWS serverless architecture, including:
- Lambda / API Gateway / S3 / SQS/SNS / EventBridge / Step Functions
- Proven experience designing and delivering microservices and event driven architectures
- Strong experience supporting production systems, including monitoring, debugging and incident response
- Experience defining and embedding engineering standards and delivery best practices
- Strong understanding of API design, systems integration and distributed system principles
- Experience leading technical design and architectural decision making
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform
- A collaborative leadership style with the ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction
Desirable
- Experience with AWS data services such as Glue / Redshift
- Exposure to SaaS platform integrations
- Experience in platform modernisation or large scale transformation programmes
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