We are looking for a highly skilled Technical Lead Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud-native architecture and event-driven data platform engineering. This role leads the design and delivery of a complex AWS modernization program, migrating a legacy event pipeline to a modern architecture built on Amazon DynamoDB Streams, Amazon MSK (Kafka), and Amazon EKS.
The Technical
Lead will own end-to-end technical delivery — from architecture and pipeline design through integration testing, CI/CD setup, and documentation handoff.
Key Responsibilities
· Architecture & Design: Drive end-to-end technical design and hands-on delivery of event-driven data pipelines on AWS; define service boundaries, integration patterns, and technical approach in close collaboration with the engineering team.
· Event Pipeline Engineering: Build and configure Amazon DynamoDB Streams producers and AWS Lambda connector functions; implement Amazon MSK (Kafka) entity linkages and own topic schema validation.
· Backfill Pipeline Engineering: Build and lead execution of S3 and Lambda-orchestrated backfill pipelines; define per-stage validation criteria and rollback strategies.
· Integration Testing: Own end-to-end integration testing to validate data fidelity across distributed pipeline components; define acceptance criteria and sign off on fidelity targets.
· Container Migration: Lead migration of services from AWS Lambda to Amazon EKS; build and maintain CircleCI and ArgoCD CI/CD pipelines for containerised deployments.
· Technical Leadership:
Contribute to and review all engineering deliverables; define Definition of Done criteria per phase; champion code quality, test coverage, and security standards across the team.
· Documentation & Handoff: Produce deployment runbooks, pipeline documentation, architecture diagrams, and AWS Well-Architected alignment summaries.
· Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate cross-team technical dependencies; liaise with client engineering and AWS platform teams; escalate blockers promptly.
Technical Requirements (Must Have)
· Strong hands-on experience on TypeScript
· Strong hands-on experience on Python
· Strong hands-on experience on Dynamo DB streaming and AWS Lamda
· Strong hands-on experience on ArgoCD / Helm
· Experience with any CI/CD pipeline tooling (preferably CircleCI, , Jenkins, or GitHub Actions) · Infrastructure as Code
· Experience with Observability tools like New Relic
Good to Have
· Experience on GoLang
· Experience on Kafka, Amazon SNS , Amazon SQS
· Hands-on experience with Kafka schema registry and topic governance.
· Familiar with AWS architecture best practices
· New Relic or Splunk for EKS service observability.
Education & Experience
· Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
· 6+ years of backend or cloud engineering experience.
· 3+ years in a technical lead or senior engineer role with end-to-end delivery ownership.
· Strong written communication — architecture documents and stakeholder-ready reports.