IT Techlead Developer

• Set and communicate a coherent technical direction for the squad.
• Facilitate technical design and collective decisions across the development team.
• Ensure alignment with architecture, security and operational expectations.
• Establish consistent practices for clean code, peer review, automated testing, documentation, observability and production readiness.
• Identify dependencies, technical risks and technical debt early, and drive pragmatic follow-up.
• Support production incident analysis and convert lessons learned into improvements.
• Coach developers, encourage knowledge sharing and strengthen shared ownership.
• Contribute directly to complex implementation work while retaining squad-wide technical oversight.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of application maintainability, stability and technical evolution.
• Support sprint delivery without losing sight of solution quality and longer-term needs.
• Work closely with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, analysts, testers, architects, operations and other delivery teams.
• Make technical topics, choices and risks visible to the squad.
• Promote shared ownership, knowledge transfer and continuous improvement.
• Challenge priorities or solutions constructively when quality, security, stability or maintainability is at risk.
• Provide squad-wide technical direction rather than owning one isolated workstream.
• Keep architecture, security, maintainability, technical debt and production stability visible in delivery decisions.
• Combine hands-on contribution with continuous oversight of the complete solution.
• Help the squad become technically stronger and more autonomous.

• At least 6 years of relevant experience in senior hands-on software engineering within a complex enterprise environment.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience as a Technical Lead or technical reference in an Agile software delivery team.
• Experience coordinating technical decisions across developers and with architecture, security and operations.
• Experience managing dependencies and delivery risks in a complex application landscape.
• Experience improving engineering practices while delivery is under pressure.
• Experience in a controlled enterprise environment.
• Experience in banking, financial services or another regulated environment.
• Knowledge of the Invest domain or investment-related digital solutions.
• Practical Scrum experience.
• Strong technical credibility and sound judgment.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to align and influence experienced developers without hierarchical authority.
• Pragmatic when balancing engineering quality, delivery constraints and business priorities.
• Constructive when challenging decisions and proactive in raising risks.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on shared ownership and knowledge transfer.

Languages.

• Sound working knowledge of English is required.
• Dutch or French are a plus.

Technologies.

• Strong hands-on Java development experience, including Java 8.
• Strong experience with Spring 4 and Spring Boot.
• Experience with backend applications, REST APIs and integration patterns.
• Experience with Kafka and Flink.
• Experience with SQL and Java database access.
• Experience with Maven, Jenkins and Git.
• Experience with automated testing using JUnit, Cucumber/Gherkin and WireMock.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, middleware, infrastructure dependencies and operational constraints.
• Working knowledge of secure development practices, code quality and production support.
• Ability to guide technical design, code review, testing and release readiness across a team.
• Experience with Lombok, HttpEntity/ResponseEntity, Groovy scripting for Jenkins pipelines, IntelliJ and Octane.
• Experience integrating distributed, mainframe and infrastructure components.
• Experience improving observability, performance, resilience or production stability.