Senior Java Engineer, Dublin

Role: Senior Java Engineer

Location: Central Park, Dublin / Hybrid (3 days in office)

• Are you an experienced Senior Java Engineer looking to further your career within a leading financial services group?
• Do you want to be a part of a high performing team delivering technical excellence?

• Are you Customer focussed with a drive for continual improvement?

What is the Role

The role presents an exciting and challenging opportunity to an experienced Senior Engineer who wants to work in a dynamic workplace environment with a real opportunity to positively influence the direction and outcome of strategic change programmes through best in class design thinking and practices.

Having experience in the development and management of CRM solutions is a requirement for this role. You will be analysing complex business issues and understanding business opportunities in order to build solutions and provide technical and industry leadership knowledge.

This is a superb opportunity for someone who wants to develop and enhance their skillset. You will be working within a high performing technical Delivery team, play a role in cross functional teams with a wide reach across AIB and fill a leading role that will offer experience across a variety of changes.

Key accountabilities

• Lead the design and development of backend Java services to achieve business Customer First ambition.
• Collaborate with our cross functional team to support and influence technical direction, system design and solution architecture.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues.
• Provide insight and expertise in directing others and ensure maximum productivity by constantly monitoring and improving software development practice.

What you Will Bring

• 8+ years of demonstrable experience in Java/Spring Boot microservice stack.
• 5+ years of experience in leading & developing junior and mid-level engineers.
• 5+ years of responsibility for running and operating tech stack.
• 3+ years of demonstrable experience of Eventing/Messaging interfaces like Kafka and/or MQ.
• Good experience with database technologies (DB2/Cassandra) and access mechanisms.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues and strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences at senior levels within the bank.
• Interpersonal skills - collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
• Senior level enterprise technology experience, with a proven track record in the delivery of IT enabled change.
• Strong understanding of Application, Information and Infrastructure technologies & practices.
• Experience in multi-threaded application.
• Experience with agile development methodologies.

Why Work for AIB

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

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Key Capabilities

• Breadth of Technical Knowledge
• Effectively leverages broad knowledge of the technical disciplines within own area of expertise, as well as the organisation's policies, procedures, programmes and tools, to develop and implement solutions.
• System and Technology Integration
• Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Technical Leadership
• Provides thought leadership and direction while managing, reviewing and conducting the day-to-day work in a specific technical domain area; applies domain knowledge to develop solutions to problems.
• Relationship Management
• Cultivates and maintains business relationships, partnerships and alliances internally, externally and virtually with key stakeholders.
• Negotiation and Influence
• Engages in discussion to reach an agreement and create outcomes, affecting the action, behaviours, or opinions of others.
• Develops Talent

Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organisation’s goals

You may also be required to perform a quick peer coding test in java to assess your reasoning skills (max 30 mins).

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role, Sarah Lyons, at careers@aib.ie  for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie

Disclaimer:

Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.  

Application deadline : 4th December 2025