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.