I forgot to return to this, so I figured I would post this here to assist others that may be struggling as Python is really finicky.

The following is the structure of a functional project in Lambda:

├── README.md
├── buildspec.yml
├── lambda_handler.py
├── locales
│   ├── en
│   │   └── LC_MESSAGES
│   │       └── base.po
│   ├── es
│   │   └── LC_MESSAGES
│   │       └── base.po
│   ├── fr
│   │   └── LC_MESSAGES
│   │       └── base.po
├── my_project_name
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── python_file_1.py
│   ├── python_file_2.py
│   ├── python_file_3.py
│   ├── repositories
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── resolvers_1.py
│   │   ├── resolvers_2.py
├── requirements-dev.txt
├── requirements.txt
├── template.yml
└── tests
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── tests_file_1.py
    ├── tests_file_2.py
    ├── tests_file_3.py
    └── tests_file_4.py

Note that the base.mo files are generated in the build in the same location as the base.po files and that requirements-dev.txt has dev-only libraries, such as pep8 for formatting and is only run within my local conda environments [I set up virtual environments for each project using miniconda]. The purpose of the resolvers in the nested repositories folder is to separate out the controller-like python files from the calls to the repositories to retrieve data.