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: youll 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.

Youll be the technical anchor across design build integration and release and the bridge between architecture delivery teams and business stakeholders.

What youll 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.
  

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.