AWS Technical Lead- AWS SageMaker

Job Title: AWS Technical Lead
Location: Austin, TX (Full Onsite)

Visa: Any (NO OPT & CPT)
Experience: 15+ Years (Mandatory)
Client: NEXTURN
Immediate Requirement Need Urgent Profiles

Job Description

We are seeking an AWS Technical Lead with 15+ years of IT experience and proven expertise in designing, architecting, and delivering large-scale enterprise applications on AWS. The ideal candidate will bring deep cloud-native architecture, AI/ML integration, and hands-on development skills, while also mentoring and leading engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable, and secure solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable, secure, and high-performance AWS-based applications.

• Define and enforce best practices in system design, coding standards, DevOps, and cloud operations.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into cloud-native architectures.

• Drive full software development life cycle (SDLC) including design patterns, source control, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and deployment.

• Provide technical leadership to distributed engineering teams, mentoring developers and reviewing design/code.

• Implement advanced solutions leveraging AWS SageMaker, Amazon Q, Bedrock, and other ML/AI services.

• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance optimization across AWS services.

• Oversee cost optimization, monitoring, and governance for AWS workloads.

• Stay current with emerging AWS technologies and recommend adoption where beneficial.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience with at least 7+ years in AWS cloud architecture/engineering.

• Strong experience in system design, architecture patterns, scalability, and reliability engineering.

• Hands-on expertise with AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/Terraform, IAM).

• Experience with ML & AI technologies (AWS SageMaker, Amazon Q, Bedrock, NLP/LLMs).

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Node.js.

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead/Engineering Manager, with team mentoring and leadership.

• Deep knowledge of DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code.

• Strong knowledge of cloud security, identity, and compliance best practices.

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred / Nice to Have

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) or AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty.

• Prior experience leading cloud migrations or building AI-driven applications.

• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS).

• Familiarity with data engineering pipelines (Glue, Redshift, EMR).
  

  1 15+ years of IT experience with at least 7+ years in AWS cloud architecture/engineering
  2 Hands-on expertise with AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/Terraform, IAM)
  3 Strong background in system design, architecture patterns, scalability, and reliability engineering
  4 Experience with ML/AI technologies (AWS SageMaker, Amazon Q, Bedrock, NLP/LLMs)
  5 Solid programming in at least one language (Python / Java / Node.js)
  6 Proven experience as a Technical Lead / Mentor / Engineering Manager
  7 Deep knowledge of DevOps & CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Infra as Code)
  8 Strong understanding of cloud security, identity management, and compliance best practices
  9 Experience leading full software development life cycle (SDLC) code reviews, testing, operations
  AWS Certifications (Architect Professional / ML Specialty) highly preferred

  If you don t hold real-time AWS architecture + leadership experience (15+ years), this role is not a fit. Please confirm and update me with your latest resume + responses.