Technical Lead

Yadimen Consulting Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Yadimen Consulting Limited is seeking a Technical Lead to own the technical direction of an enterprise Java programme. This hands-on leadership role will guide a team of engineers, set standards and steward a substantial Java estate towards cloud-ready, microservices architecture.

You'll anchor design, build, integration and release, bridging architecture, delivery teams and business stakeholders as the programme modernises and scales.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise Java experience with leadership track record.
• Hands-on expertise with IBM WebSphere or WebSphere Liberty, or comparable servers.
• Strong Java core and Spring/Spring Boot with integration patterns (JMS/MQ, REST, SOAP).
• Experience in architecture, performance tuning and production support at scale.
• CI/CD, containers and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of enterprise Java applications end-to-end.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership on IBM WebSphere/WebSphere Liberty estates; deployment, configuration, tuning, upgrades, troubleshooting.
• Set coding standards, run design and code reviews, and mentor engineers.
• Drive modernisation towards Spring Boot microservices, containers and CI/CD.
• Own non-functional quality: performance, resilience, security, scalability, observability.
• Plan and coordinate technical delivery across SIT, UAT and production releases; manage risk and dependencies.
• Partner with enterprise architects, BAs, infrastructure and vendor teams.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

Architectural design

Modernisation mindset

Tools

IBM WebSphere/WebSphere Liberty

Spring Boot

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

JMS/MQ

REST/SOAP

Job description

We are hiring a Technical Lead to own the technical direction of enterprise Java application development on amajor banking programme. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll lead a teamof engineers, set standards, and steward a substantial existing Java estaterunning on enterprise application servers — while helping modernise it towardsa cloud-ready, microservices architecture.

You'll be the technical anchoracross design, build, integration and release, and the bridge betweenarchitecture, delivery teams and business stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Lead the design and delivery of enterprise Java applications end-to-end.
  
• Provide hands-on technical leadership on IBMWebSphere / WebSphere Liberty (or comparable Java application server)estates — deployment, configuration, tuning, upgrades and troubleshooting.
  
• Set coding standards, run design and code reviews,and mentor a team of engineers.
  
• Drive modernisation: decomposingmonolithic/app-server workloads towards Spring Boot microservices,containers and CI/CD.
  
• Own non-functional quality — performance, resilience,security, scalability and observability.
  
• Plan and coordinate technical delivery across SIT,UAT and production releases; manage technical risk and dependencies.
  
• Partner with enterprise architects, BAs,infrastructure and vendor teams.
  

Requirements

• 12+ years in enterprise Java applicationdevelopment, with a strong track record leading teams and delivery.
  
• Deep, hands-on expertise with IBM WebSphere and/orWebSphere Liberty (or a comparable Java application server platform —JBoss/WildFly, WebLogic).
  
• Strong core Java and Spring / Spring Boot;enterprise integration patterns (JMS/MQ, REST, SOAP).
  
• Solid grounding in application architecture,performance tuning and production support at scale.
  
• CI/CD, containers (Docker,Kubernetes/OpenShift) and modern engineering practice.
  
• Proven ability to lead modernisation of legacy Javaworkloads.