Senior Technical Lead

HCL Technologies Limited; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking engineers to lead and deliver scalable microservices and event-driven architectures in a fast-paced environment. You will design solutions with a focus on reliability, security, and performance, and translate business requirements into production-ready code.

Ideal candidates will integrate observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, while adopting secure practices around Vault and AWS Secrets Manager. Exposure to AI/ML tools is a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong experience leading and building scalable microservices and event-driven applications.
• Ability to solve complex technical challenges from design through to production.
• Address tech debt with a pragmatic, commercially focused approach.
• Translate requirements into solid engineering deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build scalable microservices and event-driven applications.
• Solve complex technical challenges from design to production.
• Address technical debt pragmatically with business impact in mind.
• Translate requirements into solid engineering deliverables.
• Deliver reusable solutions used across teams and products.

Skills

Java

React

TypeScript

Spring Boot

Microservices

DDD

Event-driven

RabbitMQ

Kafka

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

TeamCity

Octopus Deploy

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Automated Testing

TDD/BDD

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

Certificate management

AI/ML

Tools

TeamCity

Octopus Deploy

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

Have demonstrable experience leading and building scalable microservices and event-driven applications

Can solve complex technical challenges from design through to production

Address tech debt with a pragmatic, commercially focused approach

Translate requirements into solid engineering deliverables

Deliver reusable solutions used across teams and products

Collaborate across teams and align technical decisions with business goals

xpertise in observability and reliability practices, leveraging tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch

A solid understanding of security best practices, including Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and certificate management

Experience with testing methodologies (TDD, BDD) and automation frameworks

Ability to design and implement data-intensive applications and scalable architectures (API, microservices, event-driven, serverless)

Knowledge of deployment strategies and SRE principles

Interest or experience in AI/ML technologies and emerging tools

Skill Requirements

Your Skills and Experience

Frameworks & Platforms: . Java,React (TypeScript), Springboot EE for RESTful APIs and enterprise applications.

Architecture: Microservices, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), event-driven systems using RabbitMQ and/or Apache Kafka.

Databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and/or other relational/NoSQL databases – e.g., PostgreSQL and DynamoDB

CI/CD: TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, GitHub & GitHub Actions.

Containers: Kubernetes and Docker.

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible.

Quality Engineering: Strong advocate for automated testing and quality-driven delivery.

You also bring (or are keen to grow) front-end engineering capability, with skills in TypeScript, React, and Next.js, highly regarded across our full-stack engineering practice and a key differentiator for delivering seamless end-to-end customer and developer experiences.

AI & Chatbot Integration: Exposure to building AI-driven support tools, such as integrating with LLMs/ChatGPT for developer support. Knowledge of the Model Context

Protocol (MCP) server concept or similar ChatGPT plugin development is a plus, as this squad owns an AI ChatBot for developer enablement.

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026totaled $14.8billion.