Senior AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - VP

We are seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - Vice President to join our team at Barclays. As a Senior AWS Cloud Engineering Lead - VP, you will architect and ship agentic workflows, RAG, tool‑calling and orchestration, that shorten cycle times. You will raise quality and drive adoption with enterprise‑grade governance from day one, while designing and scaling agents deployed on AWS EKS environment, leveraging leading Anthropic LLMs with privacy and controls built in.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements.
• Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling.
• Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc.
• Best practice designs incorporating security principles that meet the Bank’s resiliency expectations.
• Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value.
• Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit.
• Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
• Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact.
• Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes.

Requirements:

• Experience with design, build, and support secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure across multi-account environments.
• Implement and automate cloud infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Lead cloud platform operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, vulnerability remediation, and security compliance activities.
• Drive cloud cost optimization and DevOps practices.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to deliver cloud solutions.

Preferred Skills:

• Willingness to learn across business processes, current techniques, and new programming language paradigms.
• Practical knowledge with prompt design, automated evals, red‑teaming, and guardrails/content‑safety patterns.
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks LangGraph, LangChain, Google ADK, MCP tool integration, vector stores, and event‑driven APIs.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary ($170,000 - $230,000).
• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k).
• Life insurance.
• Paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
• Eligible for an incentive award.