Tech Lead, AWS
Listed on 2026-10-27
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IT/Tech
AWS
Our Client, a global fintech company that provides quantitative data and analytics to hedge funds and institutional investors, is looking for a Technical Lead to oversee their European Technology team. In this role, you will act as a hands‑on leader and strategic collaborator, driving the next phase of platform evolution. There is a strong element of greenfield engineering, as the business scales and modernises its infrastructure to support increasingly sophisticated quantitative workflows.
This is a high‑ownership, high‑impact position with exposure across the full technology stack, working closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and the business. Proven technical leadership experience, and a track record of designing and operating scalable distributed systems; comfortable working across the full technology stack, with strong knowledge of CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g. Terraform), and excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Responsibilities- Lead, mentor, and scale the EMEA technology team, fostering a high‑performance engineering culture
- Take ownership of platform architecture, evolving the current infrastructure to support scalability, reliability, and performance
- Drive greenfield initiatives, building new systems and capabilities from the ground up
- Champion Dev Ops best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, and automation
- Work cross‑functionally with product, data, and business teams to deliver impactful solutions
- Oversee cloud infrastructure (AWS), ensuring security, cost efficiency, and resilience
- Implement robust monitoring, observability, and incident management frameworks
- Contribute hands‑on where needed across the stack (backend, infrastructure, data pipelines)
- 5+ years' experience working with financial or quantitative datasets or Data Vendor Backgrounds.
- Proven experience in a Dev Ops / platform engineering environment, ideally within financial services or fintech
- Strong expertise in AWS and cloud‑native architecture
- Demonstrated experience in a technical leadership or team lead capacity
- Experience designing and operating scalable, distributed systems
- Comfortable working across the full technology stack (infrastructure through to application layer)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform or similar)
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
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