Application Developer (Agentic Tooling)

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

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.