Own the technical direction of enterprise Java application development for a banking program. Lead engineers, establish coding and architecture standards, review designs and code, and manage WebSphere estates. Drive modernization from monolithic applications toward Spring Boot microservices, containers, and CI/CD. Oversee performance, resilience, security, scalability, observability, production support, technical risks, dependencies, and releases across SIT, UAT, and production while partnering with architects, infrastructure teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
This is a remote position.
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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