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Technical Lead (AWS / PYTHON)

Gleeson Recruitment Group
Birmingham, West Midlands (county), United Kingdom
2 weeks ago
£90,000 – £102,000 pa

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£90,000 – £102,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Lead
Education
Degree
Posted
11 May 2026 (2 weeks ago)
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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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