Lead enterprise Java application development for a major banking program. Own technical direction across design, integration, delivery, and releases; manage WebSphere estates; establish coding and quality standards; mentor engineers; and modernize monolithic workloads toward Spring Boot microservices, containers, and CI/CD. Coordinate technical delivery across testing and production environments while managing performance, resilience, security, scalability, observability, risks, and dependencies with architects, infrastructure teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
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.
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