Technical Lead (AWS / PYTHON) NEW

City, Birmingham
Gleeson Recruitment Group
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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