Java Software Engineer Team Lead

NatWest Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in the UK seeks a Java Software Engineer Team Lead to oversee a skilled team. The role involves designing and implementing software solutions while ensuring adherence to programming best practices. Candidates should have strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Agile methodologies. This is a permanent position that offers opportunities for career growth and development.

Qualifications

• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience in software design and implementation.
• Capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation.
• Experience in line management roles within technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop knowledge across business, applications, data and infrastructure.
• Line manage a team of skilled engineers and support their growth.
• Lead the implementation of programming best practices.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Collaboration skills

Tools

Kafka

ActiveMQ

Avaloq Banking Suite

Job description

Join us as a Java Software Engineer Team Lead

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Java Software Engineer Team Lead
• You’ll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

What you'll do

Working in a permanent feature team, you’ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You’ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives.

Alongside the technical work, you will be line managing a team of skilled engineers, working in the feature team, catering for their growth and development and helping the leadership team in growing and developing the platform, team and individuals.

You’ll also be:

• Realising exciting business functionality on a team-owned microservice platform hosted on AWS
• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs
• Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong Java and Spring Boot experience in software design and implementation, including being able to solve complex problems. You’ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate:

• Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
• Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
• Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way
• Familiarity with messaging systems, such as Kafka and ActiveMQ
• Previous experience in line management roles within technical teams
• Experience with Avaloq Banking Suite