Lead Java Developer

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

Working within the Resilience Scrum Team, you will be responsible for upgrading and maintaining a large estate of legacy Java applications and integration services, helping improve the security, resilience, and long-term sustainability of the platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will continue to contribute technically whilst providing oversight and guidance to a team of three Java Developers.

Day to day, you will focus on identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities across applications, upgrading libraries and dependencies, and addressing code-level vulnerabilities identified through security tooling. You will work closely with Security, Architecture, Product, and DevOps teams to improve remediation processes, reduce the time taken to meet security SLAs, and support strategic security initiatives across the application estate.

Must Haves

• 8+ years of commercial Java development experience (Java 11+, Spring, and Spring Boot)
• Strong experience upgrading dependencies and remediating application security vulnerabilities
• Experience implementing or supporting Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions
• Exposure to secrets management and secure credential handling
• Familiarity with Spring Security Tooling
• Experience understanding security findings and driving remediation activities
• Strong experience working with Oracle Databases
• Strong SQL skills and database troubleshooting experience
• Experience upgrading and supporting legacy Java applications
• Experience supporting Java and Spring version upgrades
• Experience with Git/GitLab repositories and source control
• Strong understanding of enterprise application integrations and distributed systems

Plusses

• Financial Services, Capital Markets, Clearing, or Trading platform experience
• Spring Security experience
• Experience leading security remediation programmes
• Experience improving remediation processes and reducing SLA breaches
• Exposure to enterprise secrets management technologies
• Experience developing component testing suites and automated validation frameworks
• CI/CD and DevOps experience
• Cloud platform exposure
• Experience supporting large-scale application transformation programmes
• Experience conducting structured knowledge transfer and team enablement activities