Payments Tech Lead: Java, AWS & Microservices

Accenture; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private health insurance

Employee discounts

20 days holidays

2 charity leave days

Job summary

Accenture Ireland is seeking an experienced Development Lead for Payments Squads in Dublin, with optional London/UK-based travel. You will lead hands-on development of large-scale payment systems within ICON IPF, leveraging cloud-native microservices, Java 17+, Spring Boot, and collaboration with major banking clients.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, architecture governance, and mentoring engineers while delivering secure, scalable solutions in an Agile Scrum environment.

Qualifications

• 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
• 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

• Hands-on development and delivery of large-scale payments systems in cloud-based architectures.
• Lead design, development, and implementation of microservices-based applications.
• Provide technical leadership and promote engineering best practices across teams.
• Collaborate with major banking clients, product owners, and architects within Agile Scrum teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and perform code reviews to drive quality.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Kafka

REST APIs

JSON/XML

Oracle

MongoDB

TDD

BDD

CI/CD

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Agile Scrum

Communication

Mentoring

ISO 20022

Tools

Bitbucket

Jira

Confluence

Grafana

Dynatrace

Tivoli

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

Accenture Ireland is seeking an experienced Development Lead for Payments Squads in Dublin, with optional London/UK-based travel. You will lead hands-on development of large-scale payment systems within ICON IPF, leveraging cloud-native microservices, Java 17+, Spring Boot, and collaboration with major banking clients.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, architecture governance, and mentoring engineers while delivering secure, scalable solutions in an Agile Scrum environment.