Managed Teams — Embedded AWS Engineers
Teams instead of individuals. Named engineers in structured roles — senior, intermediate, DevOps, architect — managed by Polymath, embedded in your cadence, ramping up fast. Most engagements start as a single project and become long-term partnerships.
Principles that drive the engineering
Six rules that make embedded teams work. They're why Sagicor has had the same Polymath team embedded for eighteen-plus months — and why most of our engagements start as a single project and turn into multi-year partnerships.
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Named engineers, named on the SOW
The engineer on the SOW is the engineer on the call. The team you meet at kickoff is the team you work with through delivery.
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Our employees, our standards
Full-time Polymath staff, trained in our methodology, certified on the AWS services they work with.
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Embedded in your cadence, not around it
Your sprints, your standups, your retros. We plug into your Jira, Slack, and review cadence instead of running a parallel track.
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Teams, not contractors — senior-weighted
Team lead, seniors, and mid-levels in the ratio the work calls for. Senior-weighted from kickoff, by design.
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Knowledge stays when we leave
Documented decisions, runbooks, and structured handoffs. What we learned doesn't walk out the door when the engagement ends.
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Ramp up fast, ramp down honestly
Scale up for delivery peaks, ramp down when milestones are met. No hiring freeze or layoff overhead for capacity you only temporarily need.
Managed Teams — Embedded AWS Engineers, end to end
Four modes shape every embedded team: assemble, embed, deliver, evolve. Together they turn a single project into a long-term partnership.
Dedicated AWS engineers
Full-time Polymath employees. Trained in our methodology, certified on the AWS services they work with.
Structured team composition
Team lead, seniors, and mid-level engineers in the ratio the work calls for. Senior-weighted by design.
Embedded into your process
Your sprints, your standups, your retros. Our team plugs into your Jira, Slack, and review cadence and works inside it.
Named accountability
The engineer on the SOW is the engineer on your call. The team you meet at kickoff is the team you keep.
Knowledge stays with you
Documented decisions, runbooks, and structured handoffs, so what we learned doesn't walk out the door when the engagement ends.
Ramp up, ramp down
Scale up for delivery peaks, ramp down when milestones are met. No hiring freeze or layoff overhead for capacity you only temporarily need.
What we reach for, and why
PM, senior engineers, mid-level engineers, DevOps, and architect — mixed in the ratio the work calls for. Team lead accountable end-to-end.
We join your sprint, your standups, and your retros. Your Jira or Linear, your Slack, your code-review tool. One process, one cadence.
IaC from day one, CI/CD discipline, observability built in. Polymath methodology baked into every team we embed.
Time-and-materials as the default; fixed-scope for well-defined milestones inside the engagement; hybrid when both fit the work.
Teams assembled from our bench — typical ramp two to four weeks for a standard POD. Scale up for peaks; wind down when milestones are met.
Every decision documented; runbooks and architecture diagrams maintained in the repo; structured handoffs whenever team composition changes.
The way a project actually runs
From scoping call to embedded team in four phases — usually two to four weeks to a named team on your standups.
Scope the gap
Understand the work, the timeline, and the composition your team is missing. Propose a POD shape and name the engineers we'd introduce.
Assemble & introduce
Named engineers meet your team. Onboard to your tools, cadence, and standards. Sign off on how success is measured.
Embed & deliver
Full participation in your sprints and releases. Monthly reviews on team performance, scope, and direction. The team works in your tools, in your cadence.
Evolve or hand over
Scale up when the roadmap grows. Scale down when milestones are met. Structured handover when the engagement wraps — knowledge stays with you.
Seen in production
An Embedded Managed Team for Regulated Fintech Integration
When a government mandate required Sagicor Bank to integrate with a national digital wallet appliance, they brought in an embedded Polymath managed team to build the API layer. Eighteen months later, the team is still there — and the engagement has expanded into broader platform modernization.
Read the Sagicor storyEmbedded engagement, still active
Full-stack pod: PM + seniors + devs + DevOps + architect
Part of these solutions
Managed Teams is the engagement model behind every solution — and stands alone as an extension of a customer's engineering team for any AWS work that doesn't fit a fixed-scope project.
Need AWS engineering capacity without the overhead?
Tell us the shape of the work and the gap in your team. We'll propose a POD, name the engineers, and have them embedded in your cadence — usually within a few weeks.
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