Java Technical Lead

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Location: Kraków

Hybrid model: Hybrid model 3 days per week in the office /2 days for a parent of a child up to 4 years old

About the team:
Brown Brothers Harriman is currently recruiting a Technical Leader to join our Data Transformation Technology team. In this role you will be responsible for architecture, design and implementation of business-critical low-code/no-code applications that constitute a business process fabric for many BBH’s business teams. This position requires a skilled individual who understands how to effectively inspire a technical team to use available technologies to create a stable platform for business users.  

In our team, you will be responsible for:

• Manage development team, guide and provide training to junior team members.

• Communicate efficiently within and outside the team

• Facilitate architecture discussions and design decisions

• Provide technical leadership on best practices for chosen architecture and technology

• Design and develop distributed computing systems used by internal and external clients

• Conduct code reviews for the team and have well establish standards and practices for the team

• Identify issues and risks and proactively add to the iterative discussion

• Work with business uses to address needs of scalability, testability, security, resiliency

• Foster automation and support building CI/CD pipelines

• Conduct technical research and provide recommendation as required, altering the recommended technology stack for the department and ensuring it’s up to date with latest industry standards

• Develop employees by providing training, mentoring, appropriately challenging assignments and assistance with career planning.

• Assist in the hiring process of qualified personnel

What we’re looking for:

• BS degree in Technology and/or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 9 years of professional experience as a software engineer, in back-end or full-stack capacity

• Minimum of 2 years in a technology lead position, being responsible for the system design and architecture or application delivery

• Strong technology background, hands-on experience in development

• Comfortable with Agile operating models

• Excellent Communication skills, fluent English

• Proven track record in designing large scale distributed systems with Java technologies 

• Experience with test and build automation using CI/CD pipelines

• In-depth understanding the concepts of databases, popular Web frameworks, Enterprise Integrations concepts (queue, pub-sub, REST API)

• Experience with microservice architecture

• Core technical skill set include Java, Spring, SQL, Hibernate, Kafka

• Exposure to reactive front-end technologies like Angular is a plus

• Familiarity with cloud technologies, knowledge of OpenShift (Docker, Kubernetes)

What we offer:

• To encourage cultural awareness and philanthropy, BBHers have

• Culture Celebration Day and 1 Community Service Day in addition to their paid standard vacation allowance

• Private medical care

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program - offering independent and confidential counselling services for you and your family. You can get support for topics including family, marriage and relationships, finances, and legal issues.

• Professional trainings and qualification support

• Wellbeing Program

• Online Social Fund benefit platform

• Social, sport and integration events

• Onboarding Program for new hires

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. 

We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.  As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours.

Go to BBH.com to learn more about our rewards and benefits, philanthropy, approach to sustainability or how we support you to thrive personally, physically and financially.