Tech Lead with Java

Based in Warsaw, hybrid working (50/50)

At least 5 years’ experience

English mandatory

Start day: January 1st, 2027

About the Team

Arval IT is an international IT organization, with a workforce of around 1 000 internal and external professionals located in several countries (France, UK, Netherlands and other). As part of our sourcing strategy, we are expanding our nearshoring capabilities by establishing a new Arval Tech Center in Poland, within an existing business operations shared service center (Arval Competence Center Warsaw, ACCW). This Arval Tech Center plays a strategic role in the development of digital expertise, and internalization of key competencies currently handled by external partners.

Arval Competence Center Warsaw is the latest initiative of the BNP Paribas group, which aims to develop competences and business services. Currently, ACCW employs over 150 people who, every day, in various languages, help Arval Group entities to efficiently serve Clients and Partners. In ACCW, solutions are being created that aim to streamline the customer and supplier verification processes. The center specializes, among others, in credit analyses and KYC analyses, and also performs tasks in the field of HR data administration and internal control.

As part of the strategic initiative of Arval IT teams’ deployment, the Dynamos Tribe is expanding its presence in Poland. The Dynamos Core Leasing Platform (CLS) is the platform being used by Arval Business within 15 countries and 2 competence centers to operate the leasing and mobility solutions of Arval. We provide leasing and mobility solutions to corporations, medium and small companies and individuals. Our IT model is based on agile delivery, with squads working in collaboration with product owners, scrum masters, designers, engineers and technical leads around multiple geographies.

Duties - Responsibilities

The Tech Lead is an experienced member of the agile team (Squad), who ensures the software quality of the delivered Product. In terms of IT norms and standards, she/he is responsible for the technical design of the Product in accordance with operational and technical requirements. Tech Lead offers IT solutions that best meet the needs of the business driven by the Product Owner (Business Line / Functions) and always seeks to maximize the value generated. Using his/her experience and knowledge, the Tech Lead coaches the developers in the Squad with a view to improving their technical skills. As an agent of change, the Tech Lead also contributes to Agile transformation and to the roll-out of Agile methods and practices at the organization, including Test & Learn. She/he participates in Tech Lead communities at entity level and possible Group level

Activities

THE TECH LEAD WILL BE INVOLVED IN SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES

Design and developing IT solutions that meet operational and technical requirements:

• Developing assumptions, designing operational and technical macro-solutions, facilitating discussion workshops and stimulating teams’ creativity
• Designing and developing components in the form of microservices
• In coordination with his/her entity’s architects, guiding technical and application solutions and proposing the most appropriate technical choices, factoring in integration constraints and non-operational requirements (standards and rules, IT security, IT continuity, Production, performance, obsolescence, etc.)
• Ensuring the quality of solutions, measuring that quality, issuing alerts on non-conformities and approving final solutions.
• Continuously working to increase developer efficiency by proposing improvements to the production process and solutions that enhance this efficiency.
• Identifying the tools required to rapidly and effectively carry out these components (DevOps tools, frameworks, etc.)
• Analyzing risks associated with proposed solutions and suggesting remedial actions

Supporting and developing the Agile team (Squad):

• Providing support in improving the technical skills of the team’s developers
• Sharing knowledge to improve collective efficiency.

Contributing to the Agile transformation:

• Helping to improve agile methods and practices at all phases of the development cycle.
• Participating in agile rituals, including those of an Agile@scale organisation.
• Holding discussions with and contributing to the entity and Group-level communities of IT Technical Leader

Expertise and skills

Business Skills

• IT development
• IT testing
• Architecture
• Cybersecurity
• Risk analysis

BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS

• Ability to collaborate/Teamwork
• Ability to Deliver/Results Driven
• Creativity & Innovation/Problem Solving
• Organizational Skill

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS

• Analytical Ability
• Ability to manage a project
• Ability to inspire others & generate people’s commitment
• Ability to develop others & improve their skills
• Ability to develop and leverage networks

COMMON BASE TOOLS

• IT Language: Java (Level Expert)
• Development Tools (IntelliJ, Git/GitLab)
• CI/CD tools (Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins, Argo CD)
• AI Tools
• Workflow management tools (Jira, Confluence, Teams, SharePoint)

METHODOLOGIES

• Test and learn
• DevOps
• Agile Scrum
• Agile Kanban
• Design Thinking
• Agile@scale