Software Engineer /Tech Lead – Web Platforms – Technology Consulting

Overview

As Technical Lead for Java & Web Platforms, you will guide the end-to-end delivery of complex, business-critical digital platforms. You’ll lead multidisciplinary, international teams while staying close to code, shaping scalable and secure solutions. The role blends hands-on engineering, architecture, and client engagement to turn requirements into pragmatic designs and robust delivery. You’ll influence engineering standards and drive cloud-native, microservices-based architectures with a focus on quality and maintainability. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape technology solutions for major UK and international clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of complex web applications and digital platforms
• Translate business requirements into pragmatic technical designs and delivery plans
• Lead multidisciplinary and internationally distributed teams across back-end, front-end, DevOps and QA
• Define solution architecture, components, APIs, data flows and deployment approaches
• Remain hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews and troubleshooting
• Establish and promote engineering standards across quality, testing, security, performance, observability and documentation
• Guide cloud-native, microservices-based and API-led solutions
• Oversee technical delivery across development, test, release and production environments
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Delivery Managers and client stakeholders to manage priorities and risks
• Mentor engineers and support their development
• Contribute to discovery, estimation and solution shaping for new opportunities
• Identify reusable components and accelerators with other BIP teams

Key requirements

• Extensive experience designing, developing and delivering complex enterprise web applications or platforms
• Significant hands-on software engineering background with deep expertise in at least one stack area
• Strong back-end experience with Java, Spring and Spring Boot
• Front-end familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript and React or Angular
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and distributed systems
• Knowledge of software architecture, OOP, design patterns and microservices
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)
• Cloud delivery on major platforms (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
• Containerised delivery (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Git-based workflows, PRs and code reviews
• Strong DevOps understanding and CI/CD
• Automated testing across unit, integration, API and e2e tests
• Application security awareness (auth, authz, secure APIs, vulnerabilities)
• Issue diagnosis and resolution for complex applications and integrations
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Experience with distributed or international teams
• Full professional English proficiency
• It would be great to have Terraform/CloudFormation, observability tools, and Agile tooling like Jira/Confluence

• Strong communication
• Stakeholder management
• Mentoring and coaching
• Java
• Spring
• Spring Boot

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