AWS AI Senior Tech Lead

Role: AWS AI Senior Tech Lead

Location:

Remote
Term:
Full Time

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent cloud architecture certification preferred.
• Strong hands-on capability in Python, Type Script/JavaScript, REST APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns, and containerized deployments.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock, Sage Maker, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, S3, Cloud Watch, and CI/CD tooling.
• Deep understanding of prompt engineering, agent orchestration, tool integration, vector stores, embeddings, model evaluation, and AI guardrails.
• Ability to enforce engineering standards, code quality, secure coding, performance tuning, and observability practices.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, estimation, planning, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Familiarity with compliance, audit logging, model risk controls, and responsible AI practices.
• Strong understanding of AI agent patterns, prompt orchestration, tool/function calling, RAG pipelines, model evaluation, guardrails, and observability.
• Strong application security and cloud security knowledge, including threat modeling, OWASP/API security, identity and access management, encryption, secure SDLC, logging, monitoring, and resilience patterns.
• Ability to define non-functional requirements for security, privacy, performance, resiliency, scalability, auditability, and operational readiness.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present architecture decisions, risks, and trade-offs to senior stakeholders.

• Lead the technical delivery of AI agent capabilities, reusable platform components, integrations, and automation workflows.
• Translate solution architecture into detailed engineering designs, sprint plans, and implementation tasks.
• Guide developers on AI patterns, cloud-native implementation, secure coding, testability, and performance optimization.
• Build and review core components such as agent orchestration services, API layers, RAG services, tool connectors, and model interaction modules.
• Coordinate with architects, product owners, UX designers, security SMEs, and QA teams to drive end-to-end delivery quality.
• Establish technical best practices, coding standards, review processes, and reusable accelerators.
• Support environment readiness, deployment planning, defect triage, production readiness reviews, and knowledge transition.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, data, cloud platform, application, and business teams to ensure alignment with client standards.
• Embed application security and cloud security requirements into solution design, including IAM, encryption, network controls, API protection, secrets management, secure data access, logging, and monitoring.
• Drive build-versus-buy evaluations, technology selection, platform design decisions, security trade-off analysis, and architectural risk mitigation.
• Establish reusable cloud patterns, secure integration standards, deployment approaches, and non-functional requirements for performance, resiliency, and security.
• Review detailed designs and implementation outputs to ensure adherence to approved architecture, security controls, and operational readiness expectations.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Informatio n Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of technology architecture experience, including 4+ years designing cloud-native solutions on AWS.
• Strong experience architecting Gen AI, LLM, RAG, agentic workflow, and AI platform solutions for enterprise-scale programs.
• Hands‑on exposure to AWS Bedrock, Sage Maker, Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, networking, and security constructs.
• Strong understanding of application security and cloud security, including secure design, IAM, encryption, network segmentation, API security, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and compliance controls.
• Experience designing governed, compliant, auditable platforms for regulated domains; insurance or financial services experience preferred.