Java Technical Lead

London | Investment Banking | Java Technical Lead | Hybrid Working

We are working with a leading investment bank who are looking for a hands-on Java Technical Lead to help shape and build a strategic AI Labs and Data Lake platform within its Wholesale Data Technology function.

This is a senior engineering role combining hands-on development, architecture ownership and technical leadership. You will lead the delivery of scalable data-acquisition capabilities used across Global Markets, working closely with Front Office stakeholders and wider Risk, Finance and Operations teams.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the design and development of a large-scale Data Lake platform
• Building data-acquisition services, feeds and ingestion pipelines
• Shaping architecture and technical standards across the platform
• Developing scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Improving data quality, validation, monitoring and lineage capabilities
• Mentoring engineers while remaining actively involved in development
• Supporting the platform’s future expansion into AI and agent-based capabilities

What we’re looking for:

• Strong hands-on Java and Kafka engineering experience
• Experience building distributed systems, microservices and REST APIs
• Strong AWS knowledge, ideally including S3-based data platforms
• Experience developing data feeds, pipelines or data-acquisition services
• Previous experience working directly with traders or Front Office teams
• Technical leadership experience, including architecture and mentoring
• Ability to lead a small engineering team without moving away from the code

Desirable skills:

• Market data processing or vendor data-feed integration
• Apache Iceberg or other Data Lake technologies
• Fixed Income, Equities or FX knowledge
• Spring Boot, Hibernate and JPA
• KDB or Python
• Jenkins, Ansible and CI/CD tooling