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.