At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of innovative payment solutions and collaborate with top banking clients.
- Company: Join Accenture, a global leader in professional services and innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, health insurance, flexible working, and 20 days holiday plus charity leave.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with opportunities for mentorship and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the payments industry while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 2+ years in Java development, experience with payments frameworks, and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Role Overview
Experienced Senior Java Engineer / Lead with hands-on experience of working within the 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 a 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 solutions 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, working 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 accessIErecruitment@accenture.com.
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.
Development Lead - Payments (ICON IPF) employer: Accenture
Accenture is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture in London that fosters innovation and collaboration. With competitive benefits like 30 days of vacation, access to fitness classes, and private medical insurance, employees are supported in achieving a healthy work-life balance while also having ample opportunities for professional growth and development within the rapidly evolving field of AI.
