: Technical Lead Engineer

We are looking for a highly skilled Technical Lead Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud-native architecture and event-driven data platform engineering. This role leads the design and delivery of a complex AWS modernization program, migrating a legacy event pipeline to a modern architecture built on Amazon DynamoDB Streams, Amazon MSK (Kafka), and Amazon EKS.

The Technical

Lead will own end-to-end technical delivery — from architecture and pipeline design through integration testing, CI/CD setup, and documentation handoff.

Key Responsibilities

· Architecture & Design: Drive end-to-end technical design and hands-on delivery of event-driven data pipelines on AWS; define service boundaries, integration patterns, and technical approach in close collaboration with the engineering team.

· Event Pipeline Engineering: Build and configure Amazon DynamoDB Streams producers and AWS Lambda connector functions; implement Amazon MSK (Kafka) entity linkages and own topic schema validation.

· Backfill Pipeline Engineering: Build and lead execution of S3 and Lambda-orchestrated backfill pipelines; define per-stage validation criteria and rollback strategies.

· Integration Testing: Own end-to-end integration testing to validate data fidelity across distributed pipeline components; define acceptance criteria and sign off on fidelity targets.

· Container Migration: Lead migration of services from AWS Lambda to Amazon EKS; build and maintain CircleCI and ArgoCD CI/CD pipelines for containerised deployments.

· Technical Leadership:



Contribute to and review all engineering deliverables; define Definition of Done criteria per phase; champion code quality, test coverage, and security standards across the team.

· Documentation & Handoff: Produce deployment runbooks, pipeline documentation, architecture diagrams, and AWS Well-Architected alignment summaries.

· Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate cross-team technical dependencies; liaise with client engineering and AWS platform teams; escalate blockers promptly.

Technical Requirements (Must Have)

· Solid hands-on experience on TypeScript

· Strong hands-on experience on Python

· Strong hands-on experience on Dynamo DB streaming and AWS Lamda

· Strong hands-on experience on ArgoCD / Helm

· Experience with any CI/CD pipeline tooling (preferably CircleCI, , Jenkins, or GitHub Actions) · Infrastructure as Code

· Experience with Observability tools like New Relic

Good to Have

· Experience on GoLang

· Experience on Kafka, Amazon SNS , Amazon SQS

· Hands-on experience with Kafka schema registry and topic governance.

· Familiar with AWS architecture best practices

· New Relic or Splunk for EKS service observability.

Education & Experience

· Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

· 6+ years of backend or cloud engineering experience.

· 3+ years in a technical lead or senior engineer role with end-to-end delivery ownership.

· Strong written communication — architecture documents and stakeholder-ready reports.

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🏢 Tavant Technologies
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