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synaptyx
Job Description
- Technical Delivery: Architecture decisions, code reviews, and hands-on problem solving across the full product stack. You set the technical standard and hold it.
- Hands-On Leadership: While you’ll be architecting and managing the Tech delivery, you’re also expected to roll up your sleeves and get your hands in the work. That means running AI proof-of-concepts, prototyping art-of-the-possible solutions, and accelerating client pilots and production rollouts.
- Cloud Leadership: Architect and implement solutions across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.), ensuring flexibility, performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Apply Kubernetes and containerisation best practices to deploy and orchestrate cloud-native and GenAI/ AI-ML workloads, with security frameworks across APIs, identity, and access management (SSO, RBAC) built in from the start.
- CI/CD and DevOps: GitHub Actions, pipelines, and the practices that keep deployments consistent and the team moving.
- Sprint Delivery and Governance: Running the FORGE 10-day sprint cycle: Day 1 scoped and designed, Day 10 deployed and demoed. Running agile ceremonies, surfacing blockers before they become a missed sprint, and holding the morning readiness and evening gate review calls. Good work doesn't count until someone can see it run.
- People Management: Line management of the engineering team. Work management and task prioritisation to keep the team focused on sprint goals, alongside 1:1s, career development, and performance conversations.
- Team Mentoring: Not just code reviews, but the kind of input that changes how an engineer approaches a problem.
- Stakeholder Communication: Translating what the team has built into what it does for the client. Without fog.
What You Bring
- 3-5 years overall in a technical role, with 1-2 years carrying both delivery and people management accountability.
- 2-4 years of hands-on experience across cloud architecture, deployment, and optimisation. Familiar with Bedrock, Lambda, ECS, EC2, CloudFront, and ALB/NLB on AWS. Azure exposure adds to this.
- Solid grasp of cloud-native design: cost optimisation, security, and performance tuning, and the trade-offs between all three.
- GitHub Actions, CI/CD, and DevOps in practice. Not just on paper.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes, containerisation, and microservice deployment.
- Strong Python, PySpark, and SQL for building data and AI pipelines.
- Proven track record managing engineers: formal line management including 1:1s, development conversations, and the harder conversations when standards slip.
- Proven experience running delivery: sprint governance, agile ceremonies, and bringing complex technical projects home.
- Communication that holds up in a client room: clear, outcome-focused, and light on jargon.
- A figure-it-out mindset. You make reasonable assumptions, ship something, and iterate. You own what you build and can defend it when challenged. Especially when the client has opinions.