Software Engineering Lead

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The team

You will join Hitachi Digital Services’ Financial Services Delivery team, supporting a highly respected regional banking client based in Texas. This team delivers mission-critical, regulated enterprise platforms and works closely with client stakeholders to modernize core banking systems using Java, cloud, AI, and data engineering. You’ll lead a large, globally distributed engineering organization, collaborating across onshore and offshore teams to drive high-quality, secure, and compliant solutions.

The role

Role

As a Java Technical Lead, you will provide end-to-end technical leadership for a large-scale banking engagement, owning architecture, delivery, and team performance. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will:

• Lead and govern enterprise Java architecture and delivery, including microservices, APIs, cloud-native solutions, and data/AI integrations.
• Provide strategic direction and day-to-day leadership for a 30+ member engineering team, ensuring best practices, regulatory compliance, and strong delivery controls.
• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure systems tailored for financial services environments.
• Partner with client stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into clear technical roadmaps and execution plans.
• Drive agile delivery, proactively managing risks, quality, security, and delivery timelines.
• Mentor and develop onshore and offshore team members, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Leverage emerging technologies in AI, data, and cloud to continuously enhance client solutions.
• Maintain robust technical documentation, enforce standards, and track delivery health using key metrics.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in Java development, architecture, and enterprise solution delivery.
• Proven leadership of large onshore/offshore teams (30+ engineers), ideally within banking or financial services.
• Deep technical expertise in:
• Java, Spring, Microservices
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• API design and distributed systems
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML and data engineering solutions into enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of security, regulatory, and compliance requirements in financial services.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work on-site in Dallas, five days per week.
  

Preferred

• Financial services or banking domain experience.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures, low-latency systems, and modern security frameworks.
  
  

About Us

We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How We Look After You

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.