AWS Developer - financial services- contract
AWS Developer| Cloud Application Engineer | Financial Services
Long-Term Contract | Hybrid Working
We're supporting a major financial services organisation on a large-scale cloud transformation programme and are looking for a senior AWS Cloud Application Engineer to help drive cloud adoption, improve developer experience, and establish engineering best practices across a complex enterprise environment.
This is a hands-on role suited to an experienced software engineer who enjoys working directly with development teams, solving complex technical challenges, and enabling the adoption of secure, cloud-native application development practices within a regulated environment.
The Role
- Design and implement AWS engineering standards, guardrails and reusable development patterns
- Support application modernisation and cloud migration initiatives
- Help engineering teams adopt AWS services, tooling and best practices
- Conduct technical research, proof-of-concepts and architecture assessments
- Drive improvements in developer experience and software delivery practices
- Partner with engineering, platform, security and architecture teams
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, coaching and mentoring
- Influence engineering direction and cloud adoption across multiple delivery teams
Required Experience
- Strong software engineering background with extensive AWS application development experience
- Deep understanding of AWS services, cloud-native architectures and developer tooling
- Experience with AWS Step Functions and distributed application architectures
- Strong knowledge of modern software engineering practices, CI/CD and automation
- Ability to operate in complex enterprise environments and influence technical decision-making
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Proven experience driving adoption of new technologies, standards and engineering practices
Highly Desirable
- Previous experience within Financial Services, Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance or other regulated environments
- Experience working within governance, risk, compliance or security-focused engineering environments
- Experience with AI-assisted software development tools
- Knowledge of containerised development environments
- Exposure to telemetry, engineering analytics and reporting
- Data engineering or analytics experience
Please send across an updated CV if this position is of interest
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
AWS Developer - financial services- contract
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