Senior Python Tech Lead – Data & Cloud

Forsyth Barnes; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days annual leave

Company pension

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Training and development

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes partners with a growing technology business seeking a Python Tech Lead to own key engineering initiatives across data and cloud environments. This hands-on leadership role blends coding with shaping architecture and engineering standards.

You will design scalable Python services, own projects from requirements to production, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data and DevOps to deliver reliable systems on AWS. Hybrid role in London (2 days in office).

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Experience designing scalable backend systems.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of scalable Python-based applications and data platforms.
• Own technical projects from requirements through to production.
• Design and implement data ingestion, processing and distribution systems.
• Develop robust, high-performance Python services.
• Work extensively with AWS and cloud-native technologies.
• Drive improvements across architecture, scalability, reliability and performance.
• Translate business requirements into engineering solutions with Product teams.
• Contribute to CI/CD, infrastructure automation and deployment processes.
• Support monitoring, observability, security and operational resilience.
• Lead technical discussions, architecture decisions and code reviews.
• Mentor engineers and lead architecture decisions.

Skills

Python

AWS

Data engineering

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

SQL

Mentoring

Code quality

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Forsyth Barnes partners with a growing technology business seeking a Python Tech Lead to own key engineering initiatives across data and cloud environments. This hands-on leadership role blends coding with shaping architecture and engineering standards.

You will design scalable Python services, own projects from requirements to production, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data and DevOps to deliver reliable systems on AWS. Hybrid role in London (2 days in office).