Technical Lead – Enterprise Java

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.

Key responsibilities

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

Required profile

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise Java application development with a proven track record of leading teams and delivering solutions.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise with IBM WebSphere and/or WebSphere Liberty, or comparable servers such as JBoss/WildFly or WebLogic.
• Strong core Java knowledge and experience with Spring / Spring Boot, as well as enterprise integration patterns (JMS/MQ, REST, SOAP).
• Solid grounding in application architecture, performance tuning and large‑scale production support.
• Experience with modern engineering practices including CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Demonstrated ability to lead the modernisation of legacy Java workloads.

Required skills

• Java
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• IBM WebSphere / WebSphere Liberty
• JBoss / WildFly / WebLogic
• JMS
• MQ
• REST
• SOAP
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift