Senior AWS Application Lead

About Us: ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges. We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains. Role Description This role is for a strong hands-on AWS app developer software engineer who can help design and implement controls, tooling, and engineering practices. The focus is on enabling engineers to use AWS core platform services and technologies safely and effectively through the right mix of internal consulting and activation. Assessing team maturity and needs through outreach and supporting the engineering principals needed to migrate app workloads to the new platform Pairing with teams and hands on coaching/doing Key Responsibilities: • Investigate current patterns for enterprise use of AWS applications and tooling • Design and implement practical guardrails, controls, and engineering patterns for AWS application development • Contribute to definition of path to platform, support team adoption and application migration • Help define how teams should comprehend the platform capability • Explore changes to the development practices to drive adoption • Run research, proof-of-concept work, and technical alignment with teams • Work across engineering, platform, security, and adjacent enterprise teams to drive uptake and adoption • Help shape scalable practices and AWS maturity among teams Required Experience: Strong hands-on background as a AWS application development software engineering: • Strong technical understanding of the AWS ecosystem with a detailed understanding of developer tooling and capabilities and technologies. • Experience working step functions and applications in complex enterprise domains. • Ability to work in ambiguous problem spaces and turn research or experimentation into practical implementation • Strong communication skills and the ability to work across technical disciplines and stakeholder groups • Curiosity, sound engineering judgement, and comfort operating across discipline boundaries • The ability to act as an internal consultant, overcome resistance and misalignment to drive platform adoption. Desirable Experience: Experience with enterprise adoption of AI-assisted development tools • Familiarity with secure developer environments, enterprise guardrails, or policy enforcement • Experience with containerised development environments or remote/offloaded development models • Exposure to telemetry, usage analytics, or engineering reporting pipelines • Experience in regulated or control-heavy enterprise environments • Some data engineering or analytics capability, particularly where reporting and insight generation are part of the role Working at ClearRoute We have grown from six founders to 180+ people across five countries in three years, and what sets us apart isn't the pace, it's how we grow. Real flexibility, in practice. We trust you to perform at your best and still have a life outside of work, with genuine hybrid working, a home office budget, an open feedback culture where your voice shapes decisions, and time off when life needs it (birthday included). When ClearRoute wins, you win. We offer profit share so success is shared, meaningful recognition for great work, and benefits that look after you and your family, including private healthcare, competitive salary benchmarking, and a confidential employee assistance program covering counselling, mental health support, and financial wellbeing. A community you'll genuinely want to be part of. Interest based communities like running and book clubs, Women in Tech group, monthly socials, and cross regional events bring people together across the company. An inclusive, collaborative culture where you don't need to conform to succeed, where people support one another and feel comfortable being themselves. Where meaningful work meets real growth. You will tackle complex, real world problems at the forefront of platform engineering, AI, security, and scalable systems. Your growth is supported by learning budgets, Udemy access, a clear career framework, internal mobility, and thought leadership opportunities that take your impact beyond ClearRoute. At ClearRoute, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis. We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at