Payments Tech Lead: Java & Cloud Microservices

Accenture UK; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private health insurance

Employee discounts

20 days holidays + 2 charity days

Flexible working

Job summary

Accenture Ireland is seeking an Experienced Senior Java Engineer / Lead with hands-on payments domain expertise to support large-scale payment systems within the ICON IPF framework. The role offers Dublin or London placement with flexible working options and close collaboration with major banking clients.

You will design and implement microservices using Java 17+ and Spring Boot in cloud environments, provide technical leadership, promote quality practices, and mentor junior engineers within

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of microservices-based applications using Java (v17 onwards) and Spring Boot.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams, ensuring best practices in architecture, coding standards, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Work in AWS cloud environments with Kafka and asynchronous messaging.
• Collaborate with major banking clients and stakeholders in Agile Scrum teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and promote continuous improvement throughout the team.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Kafka

JMS

JSON

XML

REST APIs

Oracle

MongoDB

TDD

BDD

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Agile Scrum

Stakeholder comms

Mentoring

Tools

Bitbucket

Jira

Confluence

Grafana

Dynatrace

Tivoli

Jenkins

Job description

Accenture Ireland is seeking an Experienced Senior Java Engineer / Lead with hands-on payments domain expertise to support large-scale payment systems within the ICON IPF framework. The role offers Dublin or London placement with flexible working options and close collaboration with major banking clients.

You will design and implement microservices using Java 17+ and Spring Boot in cloud environments, provide technical leadership, promote quality practices, and mentor junior engineers within