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IBM

Technical Lead

Remote

Chessington, United kingdom

Full Time

06-05-2025

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Job Specifications

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

Your Role And Responsibilities

The Technical Lead position will focus primarily on the development of CTU, an automated refactoring tool that translates COBOL to a modern object oriented (Java) equivalent. Secondary responsibilities include project related activities (integrate new libraries, solution customization, automation), or other language modernization.

Design and implement Java applications
Write well designed, testable code
Problem solving - identifying and resolving issues with applications
Participate in code reviews
Stay connected with latest technologies

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Core Java – 5 years working experience
Java libraries (some of - Spring Framework, Eclipse RCP, Eclipse EMF, Guava, Apache Commons, Guice / Dependency Injection, JPA)
Good SQL / ORM/ Relational Databases knowledge
Good command of Test-Driven Development
Practical skills in CI/CD – some of Git, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Jenkins, Jira
Excellent problem solving and algorithmic thinking
Ability to take ownership of business problems and technical solutions
Strong communication and interpersonal skills – teamwork

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Compilation technologies / ANTLR / XText
MVS / COBOL / JCL
Performance Tuning
Cloud / Kubernetes
J2EE application development
Java Script Frameworks (Angular, React, VueJS)

About the Company

At IBM, we do more than work. We create. We create as technologists, developers, and engineers. We create with our partners. We create with our competitors. If you're searching for ways to make the world work better through technology and infrastructure, software and consulting, then we want to work with you. We're here to help every creator turn their "what if" into what is. Let's create something that will change everything. Know more