Java Team Lead
Location: West Midlands (Hybrid working)
Type: Permanent
About the Role
TXP is growing its Java capability significantly, and we’re looking for an experienced Java Team Lead to help shape, scale, and lead our Java engineering community.
This is a senior leadership role, focused on the management, development and technical oversight of our Java teams across the UK, offshore delivery centres and trusted partners. This role is critical in maintaining engineering standards, developing people, supporting recruitment, and ensuring we continue to deliver high‑quality outcomes for our clients.
You’ll bring a strong developer background, but this is not a hands‑on delivery role. Instead, it’s an opportunity to step back from day‑to‑day coding and focus on leadership, quality, and scale, while staying technically credible.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Java engineering capability across TXP, maintaining high standards of delivery and quality
- Provide technical leadership and assurance, ensuring modern engineering practices and standards are consistently applied
- Act as the escalation point for the Java team across delivery, technical, and people matters
- Support the development and performance management of engineers, including mentoring senior developers
- Drive recruitment and onboarding of new Java team members as the capability scales
- Oversee and challenge solution designs, code quality, and engineering approaches (without being hands‑on in delivery)
- Support pre‑sales and bid activities, working closely with technical and commercial stakeholders
- Work with delivery leaders and partners to ensure teams are set up for success
- Shape, promote, and enforce engineering standards across the full development lifecycle
Essential Experience
- Strong background in Java development (Java 1.6 / 1.8 or later)
- Experience leading or managing Java engineers in a delivery environment
- Excellent understanding of REST APIs, Spring, Oracle PL/SQL, and microservices architecture
- Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (e.g. Maven, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Good working knowledge of Agile / Scrum delivery approaches
- Experience reviewing, challenging, and assuring code and technical design
- Confidence engaging in technical discussions with senior engineers and architects
- Strong people leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills
Desirable Experience
- Front‑end exposure (React or other JavaScript frameworks)
- CI/CD, unit testing (JUnit, Mockito), and TDD practices
- Cloud platforms such as Azure and/or AWS
- Pre‑sales, bid support, or solution shaping experience
- Experience working with offshore or partner teams
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Additional day of paid leave for your birthday (or Christmas eve)
- Salary sacrifice, matched employer contributed pension (4%)
- Life assurance (3x)
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Private medical insurance through our partner Aviva
- Cycle to work scheme
- Corporate eye‑care vouchers
- Access to an independent financial advisor
- 2 social value days per year to give back to local communities
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