Java Technical Lead

Technical Lead

About the role

• We are hiring a Technical Lead to own the technical direction of enterprise Java application development on a
• major banking programme. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll lead a team
• of engineers, set standards, and steward a substantial existing Java estate
• running on enterprise application servers — while helping modernise it towards
• a cloud-ready, microservices architecture.

You'll be the technical anchor

across design, build, integration and release, and the bridge between

architecture, delivery teams and business stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and delivery of enterprise Java applications end-to-end.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership on IBM
• WebSphere / WebSphere Liberty (or comparable Java application server)
• estates — deployment, configuration, tuning, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Set coding standards, run design and code reviews,
• and mentor a team of engineers.
• Drive modernisation: decomposing
• monolithic/app-server workloads towards Spring Boot microservices,
• containers and CI/CD.
• Own non-functional quality — performance, resilience,
• security, scalability and observability.
• Plan and coordinate technical delivery across SIT,
• UAT and production releases; manage technical risk and dependencies.
• Partner with enterprise architects, BAs,
• infrastructure and vendor teams.

Requirements

Essential

• skills
• 12+ years in enterprise Java application
• development, with a strong track record leading teams and delivery.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with IBM WebSphere and/or
• WebSphere Liberty (or a comparable Java application server platform —
• JBoss/WildFly, WebLogic).
• Strong core Java and Spring / Spring Boot;
• enterprise integration patterns (JMS/MQ, REST, SOAP).
• Solid grounding in application architecture,
• performance tuning and production support at scale.
• CI/CD, containers (Docker,
• Kubernetes/OpenShift) and modern engineering practice.
• Proven ability to lead modernisation of legacy Java
• workloads.