Payments Tech Lead

Insight Global are seeking a Payments Tech Lead for a major global financial‐services institution undergoing large‐scale payments transformation, including ISO 20022 migrations, real‐time payments, and platform modernisation.

This position requires 3 days onsite per week, based in Chester, UK, for a 12‐month rolling contract (Inside IR35).

What You’ll Do:

• Lead design and development of Java‐based microservices, event‐driven systems, and REST APIs.
• Deliver solutions aligned to ISO 20022, RTP schemes, message transformations (XML/JSON), and payment routing/validation.
• Implement integration patterns using Mule ESB or similar middleware, messaging, and Kafka.
• Own architecture decisions, design reviews, and technical standards adherence.
• Drive quality engineering: TDD/BDD, JUnit, Cucumber, secure coding, CI/CD enforcement.
• Collaborate with DevOps/SRE to enhance pipelines, automation, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Provide day‐to‐day technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with 10+ dependent teams.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory timelines, non‐functional requirements, and audit‐ready documentation.

What We’re Looking For:

• Multiple years of hands‐on software engineering in financial services or high‐scale regulated environments.
• Team/technical leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in Java/J2EE, REST, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Payments experience: CHAPS, TARGET2, CBPR+, RTP, or similar.
• Oracle SQL/PL‐SQL and performance tuning for large transactional systems.
• Deep XML/JSON expertise; ISO 20022 transformations.
• Integration tech: Mule ESB, messaging, Kafka.
• Strong SDLC knowledge (Agile/Waterfall) plus CI/CD and DevOps tooling.
• TDD/integration testing frameworks (JUnit, Cucumber).
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical direction.

If you’re ready to take on this exciting new opportunity we’d love to hear from you!

Apply now or reach out for more details!