Role: Development Lead - Payments Squads

Career Level: Associate Manager

Location: Dublin or London

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Role Overview

Experienced Senior Java Engineer / Lead with hands on experience of working within payments domain and within ICON Payments Framework (IPF) to support the delivery of large‑scale payment systems. This role involves hands‑on development within modern, cloud‑based architectures and close collaboration with major banking clients.

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 2 years’ hands on experience implementing ICON IPF or similar payments framework within banking environment

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of microservices-based applications using Java (v17 onwards) , Spring Boot, and related frameworks.

• Provide technical leadership to development teams, ensuring best practices in architecture, coding standards, performance, security, and maintainability.

• Strong experience working in AWS cloud environments

• Solid experience with Apache Kafka and asynchronous messaging

• 5-10 Years as a Java engineer

• Some hands on experience of operating within payment solution within banking environments

• Strong understanding of JMS, JSON, XML, Spring JPA, transaction management (JTA) and RESTful APIs.

• Proficiency in working with Oracle and MongoDB.

• Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), with the ability to promote quality engineering practices across the development lifecycle.

• Familiarity with Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Docker, Kubernetes, Observability tools like (Grafana, Dynatrace, Tivoli) and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins.

• Proven experience working closely with major banking clients

• Knowledge of ISO 20022 payments, including payment types and schemes

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders , work closely with product owners, architects, tech designers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders in Agile Scrum teams to deliver high-quality solutions

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, perform code reviews, and support continuous improvement across the engineering team.

Highly Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience with Reactive Java--Akka.

• Exposure to production support and release management, including supporting solutions through the path to live, deployment activities, hypercare, and post-production issue resolution.
   

Does this appeal to you? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Please advise if you have any particular requirements, so we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at [email protected].

What’s in for you:

At Accenture Ireland, in addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension, private health insurance, discounts through our employee discount scheme, 20 days of holidays and 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.

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