Java Senior Technical Lead - DevOps, AWS

Job Summary

Lead technical delivery inside customer environments, owning complex deployments end to end. At this level you operate with high autonomy, shape solution architecture, and influence both customer strategy and product direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with customer stakeholders (engineering through VP level) and translate ambiguous business problems into scoped technical solutions
• Architect and deliver production-grade integrations, data pipelines, and applications on the company’s platform
• Own multiple concurrent customer engagements, including timelines, risks, and success metrics
• Drive deployments across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, with security, compliance, and reliability built in
• Debug and resolve high-severity issues in live customer systems
• Build reusable accelerators, templates, and tooling that turn one-off work into repeatable patterns
• Partner with Product and Engineering to feed field insights into the roadmap
• Mentor junior FDEs and set delivery best practices
• Present architecture, trade-offs, and results to technical and executive audiences
• Travel to customer sites as needed (typically 25-50%)

Skill Requirements

• 5-7 years in software engineering, solutions/sales engineering, or technical consulting, with at least 2-3 years in customer-facing delivery
• Strong Python / Java / Go / TypeScript and advanced SQL
• Deep hands-on experience with a major cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure): networking, IAM, compute, storage, managed data services
• Proven experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience designing data pipelines and orchestration (Airflow, Spark, dbt, or similar)
• Track record of shipping production systems in enterprise settings
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to manage stakeholders and negotiate scope

Other Requirements

• Experience with LLMs, RAG, or applied ML in production
• Background in regulated industries (BFSI, Telecom, healthcare, government)
• Prior team-lead or technical-lead experience
• Cloud professional-level certifications (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Architect/DevOps Engineer)
• Pre-sales or solution design exposure (POCs, RFP responses)