job description

- candidate must very very good in english communication
- candidate must be very proactive as this is a highly monitored client project
- candidate can be anywhere in mexico

roles & responsibilities

job description: technical lead engineer

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.

📌 Technical lead (México)
🏢 E-IT
📍 México