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Hi,
Job Title: Delivery Tech Lead — AWS Cloud Infrastructure & Migrations
Duration: Long Term contract
Location- Remote
We have below longterm job opening.
If you are interested , Please send your updated resume with below details.
Your current location:
Visa status:
Availability:
Expected rate all inc on c2c /1099 :
About the Role: The Delivery Tech Lead (DTL) is the senior technical leader of an engagement, typically owning a single workstream end to end. You'll coordinate directly with the customer's technical leadership, develop the technical strategy for the engagement, and ensure the team delivers on both technical and business outcomes. Working in partnership with the Engagement Manager and the customer, you'll help shape an achievable project plan, confirm workstreams are adequately staffed, and mentor consultants toward project milestones.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Strategy
Own the technical strategy for the engagement workstream and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.
Coordinate with the customer's technical leadership on architecture, sequencing, and risk; drive discussions to an outcome rather than leaving them open.
Recommend best-fit approaches prescriptively and with conviction, backed by delivery experience — and say so clearly when the customer's preferred path is the wrong one.
Review designs, code, and IaC personally; set the engineering standard by example.
Make and document consequential architecture decisions, including trade-offs considered and those deliberately deferred.
Delivery & Team Leadership :
Partner with the Engagement Manager and customer to develop an achievable project plan with realistic milestones and dependencies.
Confirm the workstream is adequately staffed with the right skill mix; escalate gaps early.
Mentor consultants — raise technical depth, delivery discipline, and customer-facing skill across the team.
Own quality and completion of the engagement: track milestone delivery, unblock the team, and lead remediation when a workstream needs stabilization.
Coordinate technical execution alongside partner consultants and other vendor teams in an Agile delivery model.
Contribute to utilization of AWS and partner resources, and to the development and refinement of new delivery offerings.
Foundational Architecture :
Design and deploy AWS foundational environments using Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).
Define and implement multi-account strategy — AWS Organizations, OU structure, account vending, SCPs, and centralized logging and security tooling.
Implement IAM and Identity Center, guardrails, and security baselines across the account structure.
Migration Execution :
Lead discovery and assessment of on-premises estates — application dependency mapping, right-sizing analysis, and migration wave planning.
Determine and drive the appropriate migration strategy per workload — rehost (lift-and-shift) and replatform — balancing speed, risk, and long-term operating cost.
Oversee lift-and-shift replication of on-premises and VMware-based virtual machines into EC2, including image conversion and OS/driver remediation.
Direct replatforming onto managed AWS services — self-managed databases to RDS, load balancers to ALB/NLB, static content delivery to CloudFront.
Own hybrid connectivity design — Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, DNS, and Active Directory integration.
Oversee storage and database migrations (DMS, DataSync, Storage Gateway, Snow Family) and validate data integrity.
Set standards for IaC (Terraform, AWS CDK), pipeline automation, and operational readiness before workloads reach production.
Produce well-structured design documents, migration runbooks, diagrams, decision records, and hand-over guides.
Qualifications :
10+ years designing and operating infrastructure, including 3+ years leading a technical workstream on customer-facing engagements.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or similar.
Demonstrated hands-on AWS depth — you have personally built production systems, not solely managed teams that built them.
Experience setting technical strategy for an engagement and coordinating with customer technical leadership.
Hands-on experience building AWS foundational environments — Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, AWS Organizations, and multi-account architecture.
Demonstrated experience with cloud migrations; large-scale, multi-wave migrations a strong plus.
Practical experience executing rehost and replatform migrations, and the judgment to recommend the right approach per workload.
Experience or strong working knowledge of AWS Transform for VMware is a significant plus.
Hands-on experience with AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), and VM Import/Export.
Strong AWS networking fundamentals — VPC design, routing, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN, and DNS.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — Terraform and AWS CDK — and at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
Current ability to review code and IaC, not just architecture diagrams.
AWS certification required; AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional preferred.
AWS Foundational & Migration Tools (Nice to have)
Foundation
AWS Control Tower — Automated landing zone setup and account governance.
Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) — Deployable foundational architecture for regulated and complex environments.
AWS Organizations / Identity Center — Multi-account structure, OUs, SCPs, and centralized identity.
Migration
AWS Transform — Agentic AI-driven acceleration of VMware migration workflows.
AWS Migration Hub — Centralized tracking of migration progress.
AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) — Lift-and-shift replication of VMs to EC2.
VM Import/Export — Converting VM images.
AWS Application Discovery Service — Inventory and dependency mapping of source environments.
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) — Homogeneous and heterogeneous database migration.
AWS DataSync / Storage Gateway / Snow Family — Bulk and hybrid data transfer.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Hi,
Job Title: Delivery Tech Lead — AWS Cloud Infrastructure & Migrations
Duration: Long Term contract
Location- Remote
We have below longterm job opening.
If you are interested , Please send your updated resume with below details.
Your current location:
Visa status:
Availability:
Expected rate all inc on c2c /1099 :
About the Role: The Delivery Tech Lead (DTL) is the senior technical leader of an engagement, typically owning a single workstream end to end. You'll coordinate directly with the customer's technical leadership, develop the technical strategy for the engagement, and ensure the team delivers on both technical and business outcomes. Working in partnership with the Engagement Manager and the customer, you'll help shape an achievable project plan, confirm workstreams are adequately staffed, and mentor consultants toward project milestones.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Strategy
Own the technical strategy for the engagement workstream and drive it to a documented, agreed target state.
Coordinate with the customer's technical leadership on architecture, sequencing, and risk; drive discussions to an outcome rather than leaving them open.
Recommend best-fit approaches prescriptively and with conviction, backed by delivery experience — and say so clearly when the customer's preferred path is the wrong one.
Review designs, code, and IaC personally; set the engineering standard by example.
Make and document consequential architecture decisions, including trade-offs considered and those deliberately deferred.
Delivery & Team Leadership :
Partner with the Engagement Manager and customer to develop an achievable project plan with realistic milestones and dependencies.
Confirm the workstream is adequately staffed with the right skill mix; escalate gaps early.
Mentor consultants — raise technical depth, delivery discipline, and customer-facing skill across the team.
Own quality and completion of the engagement: track milestone delivery, unblock the team, and lead remediation when a workstream needs stabilization.
Coordinate technical execution alongside partner consultants and other vendor teams in an Agile delivery model.
Contribute to utilization of AWS and partner resources, and to the development and refinement of new delivery offerings.
Foundational Architecture :
Design and deploy AWS foundational environments using Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).
Define and implement multi-account strategy — AWS Organizations, OU structure, account vending, SCPs, and centralized logging and security tooling.
Implement IAM and Identity Center, guardrails, and security baselines across the account structure.
Migration Execution :
Lead discovery and assessment of on-premises estates — application dependency mapping, right-sizing analysis, and migration wave planning.
Determine and drive the appropriate migration strategy per workload — rehost (lift-and-shift) and replatform — balancing speed, risk, and long-term operating cost.
Oversee lift-and-shift replication of on-premises and VMware-based virtual machines into EC2, including image conversion and OS/driver remediation.
Direct replatforming onto managed AWS services — self-managed databases to RDS, load balancers to ALB/NLB, static content delivery to CloudFront.
Own hybrid connectivity design — Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, DNS, and Active Directory integration.
Oversee storage and database migrations (DMS, DataSync, Storage Gateway, Snow Family) and validate data integrity.
Set standards for IaC (Terraform, AWS CDK), pipeline automation, and operational readiness before workloads reach production.
Produce well-structured design documents, migration runbooks, diagrams, decision records, and hand-over guides.
Qualifications :
10+ years designing and operating infrastructure, including 3+ years leading a technical workstream on customer-facing engagements.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or similar.
Demonstrated hands-on AWS depth — you have personally built production systems, not solely managed teams that built them.
Experience setting technical strategy for an engagement and coordinating with customer technical leadership.
Hands-on experience building AWS foundational environments — Control Tower, Landing Zone Accelerator, AWS Organizations, and multi-account architecture.
Demonstrated experience with cloud migrations; large-scale, multi-wave migrations a strong plus.
Practical experience executing rehost and replatform migrations, and the judgment to recommend the right approach per workload.
Experience or strong working knowledge of AWS Transform for VMware is a significant plus.
Hands-on experience with AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), and VM Import/Export.
Strong AWS networking fundamentals — VPC design, routing, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN, and DNS.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — Terraform and AWS CDK — and at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
Current ability to review code and IaC, not just architecture diagrams.
AWS certification required; AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional preferred.
AWS Foundational & Migration Tools (Nice to have)
Foundation
AWS Control Tower — Automated landing zone setup and account governance.
Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) — Deployable foundational architecture for regulated and complex environments.
AWS Organizations / Identity Center — Multi-account structure, OUs, SCPs, and centralized identity.
Migration
AWS Transform — Agentic AI-driven acceleration of VMware migration workflows.
AWS Migration Hub — Centralized tracking of migration progress.
AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) — Lift-and-shift replication of VMs to EC2.
VM Import/Export — Converting VM images.
AWS Application Discovery Service — Inventory and dependency mapping of source environments.
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) — Homogeneous and heterogeneous database migration.
AWS DataSync / Storage Gateway / Snow Family — Bulk and hybrid data transfer.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- Medical Devices
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote tech lead jobs.
- 5 or more years of software engineering experience with at least 2 in a lead capacity
- Proficiency in one or more backend or full-stack languages such as Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript
- Experience designing and reviewing distributed systems, APIs, or microservices architectures
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and conduct technical code reviews
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization tools like Docker, and cloud platforms
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Tech Lead Job Search
Prove async leadership in your application
Remote tech lead employers screen for written communication and independent judgment before the first call. Include examples in your resume and cover letter of decisions you made, documented, and communicated asynchronously, such as architecture choices or technical roadmaps written for a distributed audience.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote tech lead openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and experience level and apply directly without sorting through listings that aren't actually remote.
Show distributed team experience concretely
Remote employers want evidence you've worked across time zones, not just that you're open to it. Name the tools you used, the team size, and how you kept work moving. GitHub contribution history, RFC documents, and async decision logs all count as proof.
Prepare for a remote-first interview process
Remote tech lead interviews often include a written or async component, such as a take-home system design or a written technical review. Practice structuring your thinking in writing as clearly as you would on a whiteboard, and be ready to walk through past leadership decisions without slides.
Remote Tech Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote tech lead job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams, where async collaboration is the default and self-direction is a real requirement. Remote employers screen for strong written communication, the ability to unblock teams without in-person check-ins, and hands-on experience with tools like GitHub, Jira, and Slack. Candidates who can show they've led distributed teams or mentored engineers across time zones move to the top of the list.
Which companies hire remote tech leads?
Remote tech lead roles are posted by Aramark, Block, and Twilio and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These include remote-first software companies, distributed fintech and SaaS teams, and enterprise technology organizations that have built fully distributed engineering departments.
Can you get a remote tech lead job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level tech lead roles are harder to land because employers expect you to operate independently from day one without in-person guidance. Your best path is through smaller remote-first startups or open-source projects where you can demonstrate initiative, async communication, and the ability to coordinate work across a distributed team. A strong GitHub portfolio and documented project leadership go further than a title on a resume.
Do you need a degree for remote tech lead jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring tech leads weigh demonstrated engineering judgment, the ability to lead distributed teams, and a history of shipping real work. A degree can help at larger companies with structured hiring processes, but many remote-first firms focus on what you've built, how you've led, and whether you can communicate clearly and independently in an async environment.
Which industries hire the most remote tech leads?
The sectors hiring the most remote tech leads are Technology & Software, Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, and Medical Devices, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These industries rely on distributed engineering teams to build and maintain software at scale, making remote tech lead roles a structural part of how they operate.
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