AWS Technology Lead - AWS Cloud Modernization & Platform Engineering

Infinity Quest

London, UK

2 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Compensation

£40,000.0 - £70,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.adzuna.co.uk

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Audit Trail Automation of Tests Cloud Computing Software Quality Code Review Databases Continuous Integration Software Design Patterns

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DevOps Disaster Recovery Distributed Systems Amazon DynamoDB Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Failover Fault Tolerance Github Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle (Applications) Query Optimization Standard Sql Secure Coding Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) TypeScript Data Logging Enterprise Software Applications Spring Cloud Delivery Pipeline Spring-boot State Machines Database Performance Indexer Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Git Cloudformation Servicebus Event Driven Architecture Database Migration Infrastructure Automation Frameworks AWS Fargate Route53 Api Design Cloudwatch Api Gateway Software Coding Restful APIs Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Terraform Domain Driven Design Sql Tuning Devsecops Serverless Computing Docker Legacy Systems Jenkins Vulnerability Analysis Microservices

Job description

Lead modernization of enterprise Java applications into AWS cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures
Define target architecture, modernization roadmap, transition states, and technical standards
Drive API-first, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), microservices, and serverless adoption
Design and implement ECS, Fargate, Docker, ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions
Implement AWS security, networking, monitoring, and operational services including IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, Secrets Manager, Route 53, and PrivateLink
Provide hands-on technical leadership across Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, Python, and TypeScript
Guide teams in microservices, distributed systems, asynchronous integration, and fault-tolerant design
Conduct architecture/code reviews and contribute to POCs, technical spikes, and complex defect resolution
Establish coding standards, design patterns, and secure development practices
Design DynamoDB data models, including partition keys, sort keys, GSI/LSI, TTL, Streams, and Global Tables
Troubleshoot DynamoDB hot partitions, throttling, performance, and cost issues
Design Aurora PostgreSQL schemas, indexing, partitioning, and high-availability solutions
Perform SQL tuning, execution-plan analysis, and query optimization
Handle backup, recovery, replication, failover, patching, and disaster recovery
Lead database migrations from Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other legacy platforms
Design and govern CI/CD using Jenkins, Git, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and CodeBuild
Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
Establish automated testing, security scanning, code quality, and release controls
Define monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLO practices
Drive DevSecOps and continuous improvement
Act as the primary technical contact for customer architects and engineering/programme stakeholders
Lead discovery sessions, architecture workshops, design reviews, and technical governance
Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
Communicate architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, and delivery status to technical and executive stakeholders
Lead and mentor architects, developers, DevOps/cloud engineers, and database specialists

Technologies:

API
AWS
Lambda
Architect
CI/CD
Cloud
CloudWatch
DDD
DevSecOps
DevOps
Docker
Git
GitHub
IAM
Java
Jenkins
MySQL
Oracle
PostgreSQL
Python
REST
SQL
Security
Serverless
Spring
Spring Boot
Terraform
TypeScript
microservices, We are seeking a senior, hands-on AWS Technology Lead / Solution Architect to lead a large-scale application modernization programme, transforming legacy Java enterprise applications into scalable, secure, and cloud-native AWS solutions. The role combines AWS architecture, Java engineering, serverless, containers, database architecture/DBA, DevOps, platform engineering, and customer-facing technical leadership. We are based in London, UK, and offer a hybrid working arrangement.