Insight Global
Technology Lead
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Role Overview
This individual will drive platform performance, JVM optimisation, Spring Boot engineering standards, application resiliency, observability, and technology innovation across multiple delivery teams. The successful candidate will remain hands-on whilst providing technical leadership, architectural direction, and engineering governance across a complex enterprise estate. Whilst the applications support payments processing, prior payments or banking experience is not required. We are seeking a strong technologist with deep Java expertise, platform engineering experience, and a passion for solving large-scale engineering challenges.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the technical health, performance, scalability, and resilience of a portfolio of business-critical Java applications.
- Act as the technical authority for JVM performance tuning, memory management, garbage collection optimisation, thread analysis, heap diagnostics, and application profiling.
- Lead the design, development, and optimisation of Spring Boot microservices, distributed systems, event-driven applications, and enterprise APIs.
- Drive engineering best practices across architecture, coding standards, observability, non-functional requirements, and software delivery.
- Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, production stability, platform reliability, and operational excellence.
- Champion modern engineering approaches including intelligent automation, AI-assisted development, operational analytics, and emerging technology adoption.
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership, mentoring engineers, performing design reviews, and guiding technical decision-making across multiple delivery teams.
- Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Must-Have Experience
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
- Proven technical leadership responsibilities.
- Expert-level experience developing and supporting enterprise-scale applications using Java/J2EE.
- Deep expertise tuning and troubleshooting JVM-based applications in production environments, including garbage collection optimisation, heap analysis, memory management, thread analysis, performance diagnostics, and application profiling.
- Extensive experience designing, building, and supporting Spring Boot microservices within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in REST APIs, distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven design patterns.
- Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, MQ, or similar.
- Strong experience with application observability, monitoring, and production diagnostics using tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, ELK, or Prometheus.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating and implementing AI-powered solutions within enterprise technology environments, including engineering productivity tooling, intelligent automation, operational analytics, or GenAI/LLM use cases.
- Strong SDLC knowledge (Agile/Waterfall) alongside CI/CD, DevOps practices, automated testing, and release management.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence architecture, engineering strategy, and technical direction across multiple teams.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location