Java Technical Lead

Technical Lead

Hybrid (1 day pw onsite)

Surrey

£100,000 - £110,000

We are currently have an exciting opportunity for a Tech Lead for an industry leading and ambitious financial services company based in Surrey. The roles will sit within a core value stream and focus on developing and implementing innovative digital technology. You will lead and coach a team of technical experts who build software and customer experiences that continues to drive, shape and deliver our client's customer-centric, data driven and digital first strategy.

The Role:

• Technical Lead for a squad, ensuring collaborative working with Product Owners and Developers to design and build customer facing systems using React front ends, Java microservices and the latest cloud technologies
• Lead, manage and coach a team of engineers. You will lead from the front with expert hands-on software development experience and ensure high technical standards are met throughout the team.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure the squad has a clear mission, understands the wider tech strategy, healthy backlog and working to Agile practices.
• Work with our Architects and Principal Engineers on new tech choices and architecture evolution.
• Always looking at ways to Improve engineering practices in the squad including code quality, testing and CI/CD.
• Be a senior part of the company's engineering community. Strive to actively share technical expertise with the team and champion / drive tech change wider than your squad.

What you will bring:

• Expert in backend development with Java 8+
• Frontend development using React - highly desired
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins and Docker (ideally with Kubernetes) as well as cloud platform experience, ideally AWS.
• A passion for people and a deep love of technology! You will consider yourself a people motivator who has led a software development squad in an agile environment to deliver and achieve great things.
• Experience in design and development of distributed, scalable, and highly available systems with a customer centric approach.
• Any experience with CRM / enterprise applications within an ecommerce setting would be highly advantageous.
• An advocate of different agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, continuous delivery.

On top of the salary you will receive wide range of benefits which include; 28 days holiday (+ 8 flex days), PMI, a performance related bonus and a number of benefits to support your health and well being.

Please apply now for more information