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 evolutionPlatform 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 functionEssential 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 directionDesirable
Experience with AWS data services such as Glue / Redshift
Exposure to SaaS platform integrations
Experience in platform modernisation or large-scale transformation programmesPlease apply asap if interested - GleeIT
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