Java Tech Lead

Role Overview

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Java Technical Lead to support the delivery of strategic payments initiatives within Bank of America's global payments technology organisation.

The role focuses on the design, development and enhancement of high-volume, mission-critical payment applications, real-time payment capabilities, payment engine modernisation and regulatory change programmes across multiple regions.

This is a hands-on engineering role suited to a strong Java developer. This role has no direct reports but requires strong technical leadership, ownership and collaboration across delivery teams.

Overview

Insight Global is partnering with Bank of America to hire a Java Technical Lead within its Global Payments Technology organisation.

This role sits at the heart of a multi-year payments transformation programme focused on modernising core payment platforms, enhancing real-time transaction processing capabilities and building resilient, scalable systems that support critical payment flows across multiple regions.

The successful candidate will combine deep Java engineering expertise with strong technical leadership. You will be responsible for shaping solution design, driving engineering best practices, leading technical delivery and partnering with architects, product teams and operations stakeholders to deliver highly available, mission-critical payments solutions.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with significant influence across engineering teams, but no direct line management responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and evolution of high-performance Java-based payment services, APIs and distributed systems supporting large-scale transaction processing, payment orchestration and real-time payment capabilities.

• Own technical solution delivery across the full software lifecycle, providing architectural guidance, design leadership, code reviews and engineering oversight whilst ensuring solutions meet requirements for scalability, resiliency, security and operational excellence.

• Drive modern engineering practices across the team, including microservices architecture, event-driven design, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, platform reliability and cloud-native delivery patterns.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Payments Operations, Infrastructure, DevOps and SRE teams to deliver strategic payment modernisation initiatives and continually improve platform performance, availability and customer outcomes.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of hands-on Java development experience, including Spring Boot, Microservices and REST APIs.

• Strong experience building and supporting high-volume, business-critical applications within enterprise environments.

• Experience with Kafka, messaging technologies and event-driven architectures.

• Strong Oracle SQL/PLSQL skills and experience working with transactional systems.

• Experience working within Agile teams using CI/CD, automated testing and modern engineering practices.

Preferred Experience

• Strong payments domain expertise covering payment engines, payment hubs, payment orchestration, clearing and settlement workflows, real-time payments or cross-border payment processing.

• Experience delivering payment platform modernisation or strategic transformation programmes within a Tier 1 financial institution.

• Knowledge of payment networks and schemes including SWIFT, CHAPS, Fedwire, TARGET Services, SEPA, RTP or Faster Payments.

• Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, containerisation and cloud-native platforms.

• Exposure to operational resilience, observability tooling and production support within business-critical banking systems.