Lead AWS Full Stack Engineer - eDV Clearance required

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Join IBM as a Lead AWS Cloud Full Stack Developer and take a pivotal role in shaping and delivering innovative, secure and scalable cloud solutions supporting the UK’s national security and public sector. You’ll lead the technical design, development and delivery of mission-critical applications, driving architectural decisions, championing engineering best practices and guiding development teams to deliver high-quality, resilient solutions. Working alongside talented specialists, you’ll influence technical strategy, mentor engineers and tackle complex challenges across high-profile, strategically important programmes, helping shape the future of secure cloud technology. Due to the sensitive nature of the projects and clients, active Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) security clearance is essential.

• Extensive experience leading full stack development and delivering secure, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
• Expert knowledge of AWS cloud services, cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React or Angular.
• Extensive back-end development experience using Node.js, Python, Java or similar technologies.
• Proven expertise in REST APIs, microservices, databases and complex system integrations.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices and Infrastructure as Code.
• In-depth understanding of cloud security, IAM and secure software development principles.
• Experience leading Agile delivery, championing engineering best practices, automated testing and code quality.
• Demonstrable technical leadership, including setting technical direction, influencing architectural decisions, mentoring developers and driving engineering excellence.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead technical teams and deliver complex solutions.
• Active Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) security clearance is essential.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

• Proven experience leading the delivery of complex cloud solutions within public sector, defence or national security environments.
• Advanced expertise in serverless architectures, containerisation and Kubernetes, setting technical standards and guiding implementation.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, leading enterprise-scale deployment automation and CI/CD improvements.
• In-depth understanding of cloud governance, security, risk management and regulatory compliance, ensuring solutions meet organisational and industry standards.
• Extensive experience with AWS monitoring, logging, performance optimisation and cost management, driving reliability, efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrable leadership in cloud architecture, technical strategy and solution design, making key engineering decisions and resolving complex technical challenges.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor and develop engineering teams, promote best practices and foster a collaborative, high-performing technical culture.
• Experience working with stakeholders to define technical requirements, communicate architectural decisions and align cloud solutions with business and security objectives.

Desirable Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.