Senior AWS Engineering Leader & Architect – Enterprise Delivery

TRC Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 154,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

TRC Group in Sydney is seeking an AWS Senior Engineering Lead to own architecture, lead engineering teams and drive delivery across enterprise programmes.

You will shape solutions from architecture to delivery, lead multiple streams, mentor engineers, engage executive stakeholders and contribute to cloud and AI initiatives. This is a permanent role with a competitive package and superannuation.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of relevant technical engineering experience, including substantial AWS architecture and delivery.
• A strong software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering or cloud architecture foundation.
• Experience leading senior engineers and multiple technical workstreams.
• Deep understanding of AWS architecture, infrastructure automation, networking, security and cloud-native delivery.
• Working knowledge of Terraform/CDK, Python, CI/CD, Kubernetes and modern AWS services.
• A track record of complex enterprise transformation and successful technical delivery.
• Strong consulting, commercial awareness and executive stakeholder engagement skills.
• The ability to challenge technical decisions, guide architecture and remain credible with hands-on engineers.

Responsibilities

• Leading complex AWS platform engineering and cloud modernisation programmes.
• Setting technical direction across enterprise AWS architecture and multi-account environments.
• Overseeing solutions involving AWS Control Tower, networking, security, IaC and cloud-native platforms.
• Guiding engineering teams across Terraform, AWS CDK, Python, Kubernetes and serverless technologies.
• Working with senior client stakeholders to shape technical solutions and delivery approaches.
• Taking accountability for architecture decisions, engineering quality, risk and delivery outcomes.
• Supporting technical solution development, mentoring and engineering capability growth.
• Contributing to cloud innovation and opportunities involving generative AI and emerging AWS services.

Skills

AWS architecture

Team leadership

Terraform

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Serverless

Executive stakeholder engagement

Tools

AWS CDK

CI/CD tooling

Job description

TRC Group in Sydney is seeking an AWS Senior Engineering Lead to own architecture, lead engineering teams and drive delivery across enterprise programmes.

You will shape solutions from architecture to delivery, lead multiple streams, mentor engineers, engage executive stakeholders and contribute to cloud and AI initiatives. This is a permanent role with a competitive package and superannuation.