Development Lead - Payments (ICON IPF)

3100 Accenture Limited Company; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Pension

Private health insurance

Employee discounts

20 days holidays

2 days leave per year for charitable/社

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Accenture is hiring an experienced Development Lead for Payments Squads in Dublin/London. The role focuses on hands-on Java engineering in a payments domain, with leadership responsibilities and cloud-native practices.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and partner with major banking clients to deliver scalable payment solutions using IPF, AWS, Kafka, and modern microservices patterns.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in payments domain or ICON IPF framework in banking environments.
• Lead design, development, and implementation of microservices-based applications using Java (v17+), Spring Boot, and related frameworks.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams; ensure best practices in architecture, coding standards, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Strong experience in AWS cloud environments and messaging with Apache Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of payments solutions within cloud-based architectures.
• Collaborate with banking clients, product owners, architects, and DevOps in an Agile Scrum setup.
• Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and promote quality engineering practices across the team.
• Contribute to the end-to-end delivery and continuous improvement of payment systems.

Skills

Java 17

Spring Boot

AWS

Kafka

Microservices

REST APIs

JMS/JSON/XML

Docker

Kubernetes

TDD/BDD

Jira/Confluence

Bitbucket

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Oracle/MongoDB

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Dynatrace

Tivoli

Job description

Role Information

Development Lead - Payments Squads

Career Level: Associate Manager

Location: Dublin or London

Accenture: Your Unique Place in our Global Collective! Being part of Industry & Enterprise means becoming an expert at making the New Happen Now. To us, the New is all about the pivot that turns constant disruption to continuous reinvention. We are an innovation-led company that works at the heart of our clients’ organisations so that no matter how sophisticated the business challenge, we face the future with confidence. We combine deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will affect industry and business models to shape our clients’ future. Our Teams Drive end-to-end transformation - Combine data driven insights with expertise and experience to connect the end-to-end capabilities needed to inspire change. Lead epic disruption - Co-create and iterate with colleagues and clients to reinvent and reshape industries. Partner with the biggest clients - Gain unrivalled exposure to industry standard methodologies working with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 across 40+ industries in 120+ countries.

Role Overview

Experienced Senior Java Engineer / Lead with hands on experience of working within payments domain and within ICON Payments Framework (IPF) to support the delivery of large‑scale payment systems. This role involves hands‑on development within modern, cloud‑based architectures and close collaboration with major banking clients.

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 2 years’ hands on experience implementing ICON IPF or similar payments framework within banking environment
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of microservices-based applications using Java (v17 onwards), Spring Boot, and related frameworks.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, ensuring best practices in architecture, coding standards, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Strong experience working in AWS cloud environments
• Solid experience with Apache Kafka and asynchronous messaging
• 5-10 Years as a Java engineer
• Some hands on experience of operating within payment solution within banking environments
• Strong understanding of JMS, JSON, XML, Spring JPA, transaction management (JTA) and RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in working with Oracle and MongoDB.
• Hands‑on experience with Test‑Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior‑Driven Development (BDD), with the ability to promote quality engineering practices across the development lifecycle.
• Familiarity with Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Docker, Kubernetes, Observability tools like (Grafana, Dynatrace, Tivoli) and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins.
• Proven experience working closely with major banking clients
• Knowledge of ISO 20022 payments, including payment types and schemes
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders, work closely with product owners, architects, tech designers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders in Agile Scrum teams to deliver high-quality solutions
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, perform code reviews, and support continuous improvement across the engineering team.

Highly Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience with Reactive Java–Akka.
• Exposure to production support and release management, including supporting solutions through the path to live, deployment activities, hypercare, and post-production issue resolution.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Pension
• Private health insurance
• Discounts through our employee discount scheme
• 20 days of holidays
• 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice
• Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position

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