Java Technical Lead

Salary: £80,000 - 85,000 per year

• 10+ years of Java development experience
• Deep expertise in Spring Boot and microservices architecture
• Proven production ownership of scalable systems
• Hands‑on experience with Azure‑native services, including Azure Key Vault, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Storage APIs
• Strong experience building event‑driven, distributed systems
• Comfortable working with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Git Hub Actions
• Able to write code with full awareness of how it is built, tested, and deployed
• Strong advocate of automated testing and quality‑first development
• Passion for eliminating technical debt and improving legacy systems

• Define and enforce Java and Node.js engineering standards across the platform
• Set the benchmark for robust exception handling, binary stream processing, structured logging, and security‑first development
• Drive a culture of clean, maintainable, production‑grade code
• Ensure all systems are built for Azure Container Apps from day one
• Own best practice implementation across stateless architecture, health check endpoints, secure secret management, and containerisation standards
• Lead API and integration strategy, including RESTful API design, OAuth2 authentication flows, event‑driven systems via Azure Service Bus, and transactional email logic via Send Grid
• Act as a hands‑on technical mentor and run structured code reviews to eliminate technical debt before production
• Elevate team capability and enforce engineering discipline at every level
• Work side‑by‑side with the Principal / Head of Architecture to translate high‑level designs into deliverable implementation plans
• Ensure developers understand not just what to build, but why
• Embed a non‑negotiable automated testing culture across unit, integration, and contract testing
• Operate with a strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Git Hub Actions
• Build software that is deployment‑aware and production‑ready from day one

• API
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Git Hub
• Java
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• microservices
• NodeJS
• Cloud
• Dev Ops

We are partnering with a well‑established, multinational organisation that is embarking on a major transformation and rebuilding its digital engine from the ground up. This is a hands‑on Modernisation Engineering Lead role based in Wembley, London, working on‑site five days a week. We offer an annual salary of up to £85,000. You will work directly with senior architecture with real ownership, influence, and autonomy, helping shape the engineering landscape and fix long‑standing technical problems properly.

last updated 25 week of 2026