Senior Cloud Engineering Lead – AWS & Architecture

Toyota; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health care and wellness

Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with match

Relocation assistance (if applicable)

Paid holidays and paid time off

Job summary

The TFS Banking and Commercial Lending team at Toyota invites a highly motivated Senior Engineering Lead to design end-to-end architectures for financial services applications. You will lead discussions on APIs, databases, caching, and observability while driving cloud-native, secure, scalable solutions.

With 10+ years in software engineering, you will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and steer AWS-based initiatives, including data lake and real-time processing architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, with 3+ years in system/application design.
• Strong foundation in Spring Boot, Java, Python, and/or JavaScript.
• Proven track record designing and deploying large-scale, multi-region cloud-native solutions (preferably AWS).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern software development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead design discussions around system components such as APIs, databases, caching layers, messaging, resilience, and observability.
• Collaborate with product owners and technical teams to design end-to-end architecture for applications across our financial services portfolio.
• Analyze trade-offs and propose scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions tailored to business goals.
• Evaluate and introduce new software patterns, tools, and frameworks through proof-of-concepts (PoCs).
• Lead the engineering efforts for AWS solutions, staying current with the latest advancements in related technologies.
• Identify opportunities, develop strategies, design architecture, and establish best practices to optimize cloud-based data lake and processing frameworks supporting real-time and near real-time data ingestion, processing, monitoring, and reporting.
• Design cloud-native applications using AWS services and modern architecture practices, including declarative coding and solutions with tools like server less workflows and computing
• Incorporate security and DevSecOps principles into application architecture, ensuring robust protection and compliance.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and best practices, ensuring design decisions and architecture artifacts are aligned, reusable, and shared for knowledge transfer.
• Provide mentoring to junior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous learning.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with organizational vision and business priorities.

Skills

Spring Boot

Java

Python

JavaScript

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

EKS

ECS

Job description

The TFS Banking and Commercial Lending team at Toyota invites a highly motivated Senior Engineering Lead to design end-to-end architectures for financial services applications. You will lead discussions on APIs, databases, caching, and observability while driving cloud-native, secure, scalable solutions.

With 10+ years in software engineering, you will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and steer AWS-based initiatives, including data lake and real-time processing architectures.