Senior Technical Lead
India
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Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
Bengaluru, Karnataka

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Solution Architect (AWS) to design, architect, and lead cloud-native solutions at scale. The role requires deep hands-on expertise in AWS, strong SRE and DevOps practices, and proven experience building highly available, secure, and automated platforms using microservices, serverless, and Kubernetes (EKS).

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design


•Design end-to-end AWS cloud architectures that are scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized
•Define reference architectures for microservices, serverless, and containerized workloads
•Lead application modernization and cloud migration initiatives
•Perform architecture reviews and ensure alignment with AWS Well-Architected Framework


DevOps & SRE

•Establish and enforce SRE best practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability)
•Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for microservices and serverless workloads
•Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through automation
•Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
Containers & Serverless
•Architect and operate Amazon EKS clusters for production workloads
•Design microservices architectures using containers and service-to-service communication
•Build and scale serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions
•Define service discovery, ingress, and traffic management strategies

Automation & Infrastructure

•Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
•Automate provisioning, configuration, scaling, and recovery processes
•Optimize deployments using blue-green, canary, and rolling strategies


Security & Governance

•Architect secure solutions using IAM, VPC, security groups, WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager
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Enforce security best practices, compliance, and least-privilege access
•Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps)

Leadership & Collaboration

•Act as a technical leader and mentor for engineering teams
•Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
•Translate business requirements into technical solutions
•Support pre-sales, solution reviews, and technical decision-making

Skill Requirements

Experience
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8–10 years of overall IT experience
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5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud architecture experience
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Strong experience in production-grade systems at scale

AWS & Cloud
•Deep knowledge of AWS services: EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM
•Strong experience with serverless AWS services

DevOps & SRE

•CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar
•Monitoring & observability: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
•Strong understanding of reliability engineering concepts
Containers & Microservices
•Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
•Microservices design patterns, API design, and event-driven architectures
•Experience with service mesh is a plus (Istio / App Mesh)
Automation & IaC
•Terraform / CloudFormation / AWS CDK
•Scripting: Bash, Python, or similar

Other Requirements

Preferred Qualifications
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AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect – Professional preferred)
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Experience with multi-account AWS landing zones
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Exposure to cost optimization and FinOps practices
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Experience in regulated or high-availability environments

Soft Skills
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Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
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Excellent communication and stakeholder management
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Ability to work independently and lead complex initiatives
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Mentoring and technical leadership mindset
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Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 226,300 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending December 2025 totaled $14.5 billion.
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