Payments Platform Lead - Java/Microservices in Cloud

Accenture UK & Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private health insurance

Employee discount scheme

20 holidays and 2 charity days

Job summary

Accenture Ireland is seeking an experienced Development Lead for Payments Squads to drive end-to-end delivery of large-scale payment systems using ICON IPF, Java 17+, and modern cloud architectures. You will provide technical leadership, design robust microservices, and mentor engineers while collaborating with major banking clients in a dynamic, agile environment.

Based in Dublin or London, you will work with AWS, Kafka, REST APIs, and data stores like Oracle and MongoDB, while promoting

Qualifications

• 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
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of payments systems within ICON IPF framework and cloud-based architectures.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, QA, DevOps, and clients in Agile Scrum teams.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in architecture, coding standards, performance, and security.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Kafka

JMS

REST APIs

Oracle

MongoDB

TDD/BDD

Bitbucket

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Jenkins

Tools

Bitbucket

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Dynatrace

Tivoli

Jenkins

Job description

Accenture Ireland is seeking an experienced Development Lead for Payments Squads to drive end-to-end delivery of large-scale payment systems using ICON IPF, Java 17+, and modern cloud architectures. You will provide technical leadership, design robust microservices, and mentor engineers while collaborating with major banking clients in a dynamic, agile environment.

Based in Dublin or London, you will work with AWS, Kafka, REST APIs, and data stores like Oracle and MongoDB, while promoting