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
Please apply asap if interested - GleeIT
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