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# Senior AWS Application Lead

- **Company:** ClearRoute
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £71,385.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Information Engineering, Programming Tools, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5821957840

## About the Role

Strong hands-on background as a AWS application development software engineering:

 * Strong technical understanding of the AWS ecosystem with a detailed understanding of developer tooling and capabilities and technologies.
 * Experience working step functions and applications in complex enterprise domains.
 * Ability to work in ambiguous problem spaces and turn research or experimentation into practical implementation
 * Strong communication skills and the ability to work across technical disciplines and stakeholder groups
 * Curiosity, sound engineering judgement, and comfort operating across discipline boundaries
 * The ability to act as an internal consultant, overcome resistance and misalignment to drive platform adoption.

Desirable Experience:

Experience with enterprise adoption of AI-assisted development tools

 * Familiarity with secure developer environments, enterprise guardrails, or policy enforcement
 * Experience with containerised development environments or remote/offloaded development models
 * Exposure to telemetry, usage analytics, or engineering reporting pipelines
 * Experience in regulated or control-heavy enterprise environments
 * Some data engineering or analytics capability, particularly where reporting and insight generation are part of the role

## Description

* This role is for a strong hands-on AWS app developer software engineer(s) who can help design and implement controls, tooling, and engineering practices.
 * The focus is on enabling engineers to use AWS core platform services and technologies safely and effectively through the right mix of internal consulting and activation.
 * Assessing team maturity and needs through outreach and supporting the engineering principals needed to migrate app workloads to the new platform
 * Pairing with teams and hands on coaching/doing, * Investigate current patterns for enterprise use of AWS applications and tooling
 * Design and implement practical guardrails, controls, and engineering patterns for AWS application development
 * Contribute to definition of path to platform, support team adoption and application migration
 * Help define how teams should comprehend the platform capability
 * Explore changes to the development practices to drive adoption
 * Run research, proof-of-concept work, and technical alignment with teams
 * Work across engineering, platform, security, and adjacent enterprise teams to drive uptake and adoption
 * Help shape scalable practices and AWS maturity among teams


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