This is a free training course followed by the potential for a role with one of our clients.
Title: Tech Lead - AWS Migration
Job location: Remote, UK (1 day per fortnight in London or Manchester)
Description:
These job roles are linked directly to free education, and upon completion of our course, you will be equipped to start your new role.
THE ROLE:
Our clients are looking for Tech Lead for their AWS Cloud Migration to join their team.
ABOUT YOU & THE ROLE
As an Tech Lead on the AWS Cloud Migration, you will provide technical leadership across the refactoring of legacy applications for a Tech Debt programme. Embedded alongside client teams and a broader programme network, you will guide technical design, ensure architectural alignment, and assure the quality of key deliverables to enable a seamless transition to AWS.
- AWS Migration Leadership: Proven experience leading technical delivery for application migrations to AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Multi-Supplier Collaboration: Strong track record of working effectively in complex, multi-supplier project environments.
- Integration Expertise: Demonstrated experience with integration design or overseeing integration-focused components.
- Java Frameworks (Nice to Have): Hands-on experience or familiarity with Java frameworks (e.g., Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JSF) and core libraries (e.g., Apache Commons, Guava).
- Modern Microservices (Nice to Have): Familiarity with microservices architecture and related tooling (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI).
- Public Sector Context (Nice to Have): Prior experience delivering digital transformation or cloud projects within the UK public sector.
SOME THINGS YOU'LL BE WORKING ON
- Technical Leadership: Directing the technical design, development, and cloud migration of key applications.
- Architectural Alignment: Overseeing technical decisions to guarantee alignment with enterprise architecture direction and standards.
- Quality Assurance: Reviewing and assuring the quality of critical technical artefacts, codebases, and architectural documentation.
- Refactoring Strategy: Guiding the architectural breakdown and refactoring of legacy technical debt into modern, scalable cloud components.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnering directly with client teams, specialists, and external suppliers across a large-scale programme environment.
100% FREE LEARNING LINKED TO JOB ROLES
All of our courses are 100% free for all students. There are no secret or hidden fees, no payment upon completion, and no debt. We work with our partner companies to ensure this education is free for all learners.
Benefits - vary per client, but are competitive.
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading application migrations to AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Track record of working effectively in complex, multi-supplier project environments.
- Demonstrated experience with integration design or overseeing integration-focused components.
- Hands-on experience or familiarity with Java frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JSF) and core libraries (Apache Commons, Guava).
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and related tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI).
- Prior experience delivering digital transformation or cloud projects within the UK public sector.
What We Do
Code First Girls is on a mission to close the gender gap in the tech industry by providing employment through free education. We’ve already taught more than 150,000+ women to learn to code and by working with companies globally, we’re boosting employability, diversity and social mobility, transforming local economies and communities. But we want to go further – our aim is to provide one million opportunities for women to learn to code and participate in the industry in the next five years, becoming the world’s first EdTech unicorn dedicated to women.
