AWS Cloud Team Lead - SaaS, IoT - Cleantech energy (Newbury)

AWS Cloud Team Lead, Java, SaaS deployment, data architectures, Microservice, serverless development, APIs, IoT

The role is based in the Newbury, Berkshire office 2 days each week and 3 days at home.

Highly competitive salary + benfits

A stunning career move with an industry leader in decarbonisation. The AWS Cloud Team Leader will lead the growing cloud team and spearhead the development of secure & scalable, AWS hosted domestic energy management products to deliver home decarbonisation.

The successful applicant will build a high performing team, fostering innovation and ensuring that they leverage the cloud securely & effectively to achieve business objectives. Working closely with other team leads, chief architect, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure that software products meet the needs of customers.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead, manage and mentor a team of cloud engineers and developers
• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure and applications
• Develop Services & APIs in a Serverless and Server based cloud IoT environment
• Work in close partnership with product management ensuring delivery of business goals
• Automate cloud operations and processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs
• Collaborate with other teams (e.g., DevOps) to ensure successful cloud adoption
• Help the company achieve the goal of adopting test-driven development

Essential experience to include:

• Degree in software engineering related subject or equivalent experience
• Proven experience in design and delivery of AWS based SaaS deployments
• Large-scale data architectures
• Microservice and Serverless development
• Web UI & App
• Believes in agile software development and has used it effectively
• Extensive hands-on development experience, with working knowledge of Java, Python, JavaScript, OOD and Functional Programming concepts
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication (written and oral) as well as interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Ability to coach, develop and mentor a team
• Effective leadership and team management skills

Desirable skills:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Pro)
• Experience of IoT development, deployment and fleet management
• Knowledge of the UK energy sector