Cloud Applications Lead Engineer

Position Summary:-
Our client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead Engineer to lead the design development integration and maintenance of custom-built applications ensuring seamless connectivity with enterprise systems.
This role plays a key part in delivering scalable secure and efficient cloud-native solutions while also providing leadership and technical direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of application developers and integration specialists
• Oversee the full application lifecycle: design development testing deployment and maintenance
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Architect scalable secure applications using AWS services
• Define and enforce coding standards and best practices
• Manage repositories version control and deployments

Integration & Architecture

• Design and implement integration strategies across enterprise systems (ERP CRM data platforms third-party APIs)
• Build solutions using APIs ETL tools and event-driven architectures
• Ensure data integrity performance and security
• Troubleshoot and resolve integration challenges

Leadership & Delivery

• Provide technical guidance on tools methodologies and architecture
• Participate in architectural reviews and technology decisions
• Support planning estimation and project delivery
• Communicate progress and align with stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science IT or related field (Masters preferred)
• 5 years of experience building and operating applications on AWS

Technical Skills

• AWS services: Lambda API Gateway ECS/EKS EC2 S3 RDS/DynamoDB SNS/SQS EventBridge CloudFront
• Integration with enterprise systems (SAP Oracle Microsoft Dynamics)
• API development (REST/GraphQL) event-driven systems
• Programming: Java or Python
• Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript React or similar
• Experience with applications engineering

Additional Experience

• AI/LLM-based applications (RAG prompt design tool calling monitoring)
• DevOps (CI/CD automated testing observability)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation CDK)
• Cloud security best practices
• SQL & NoSQL databases
• Agile methodologies

Nice to Have