Rivant

Expert IT Tech Lead Developer

Sector: Banking

Location: Brussels

Contract length: 12 months

Estimated daily rate (EUR): 700 - 850

Languages: English (Dutch/French a plus)

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Role details

Start date: 2026-09-01

Duration: 12 months

Extension possible: Not specified

Estimated daily rate (EUR): 700 - 850

Education: Bachelor's or Master's in IT, engineering or computer science, or equivalent professional experience

Location detail: Brussels (5 min walk from Central Station) - hybrid ~50% on site / 50% homeworking. No regular travel expected. Remote/telework from Belgium only

About the role

A major Belgian bank in Brussels needs a hands-on Technical Lead for backend applications and integrations that support investment-related customer journeys. You set technical direction for an experienced development team, protect medium- and long-term solution health, and still contribute to complex implementation work.

Responsibilities

  • Set and communicate a coherent technical direction for the team
  • Facilitate technical design and collective decisions across developers
  • Ensure alignment with architecture, security and operational expectations
  • Establish practices for clean code, peer review, automated testing, documentation, observability and production readiness
  • Identify dependencies, technical risks and technical debt early and drive pragmatic follow-up
  • Support production incident analysis and turn lessons into improvements
  • Coach developers, encourage knowledge sharing and strengthen shared ownership
  • Contribute directly to complex implementation while retaining solution-wide oversight

Business experience

SkillLevelPriority
Technical Lead or technical reference in an Agile software delivery team≥6 years relevant experienceMandatory
Coordinate technical decisions with architecture, security and operationsNot specifiedMandatory
Manage dependencies and delivery risks in a complex application landscapeNot specifiedMandatory
Improve engineering practices under delivery pressureNot specifiedMandatory
Controlled enterprise environmentNot specifiedMandatory
Banking, financial services or other regulated environmentNot specifiedPreferable
Invest domain or investment-related digital solutionsNot specifiedPreferable
Practical Scrum experienceNot specifiedPreferable

Functional experience

SkillLevelPriority
Set technical direction and facilitate design decisions across a development teamExpert (S2)Mandatory
Guide design, code review, testing and release readiness while contributing hands-onNot specifiedMandatory

Technical experience

SkillLevelPriority
Hands-on Java development (including Java 8)Not specifiedMandatory
Spring 4 and Spring BootNot specifiedMandatory
Backend applications, REST APIs and integration patternsNot specifiedMandatory
Kafka and FlinkNot specifiedMandatory
SQL and Java database accessNot specifiedMandatory
Maven, Jenkins and GitNot specifiedMandatory
Automated testing (JUnit, Cucumber/Gherkin, WireMock)Not specifiedMandatory
Application architecture, middleware, infrastructure and operational constraintsNot specifiedMandatory
Secure development, code quality and production supportNot specifiedMandatory
Lombok, HttpEntity/ResponseEntity, Groovy Jenkins scripting, IntelliJ, OctaneNot specifiedPreferable
Integrating distributed, mainframe and infrastructure componentsNot specifiedPreferable
Observability, performance, resilience or production stability improvementsNot specifiedPreferable

Language requirements

English (Dutch/French a plus)

LanguageSpeakingReadingWritingMandatory
EnglishGoodGoodGoodYes
DutchGoodGoodGoodNo
FrenchGoodGoodGoodNo

Soft skills

  • Strong technical credibility and sound judgement
  • Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Align and influence experienced developers without hierarchical authority
  • Pragmatic balance of quality, delivery and business priorities
  • Constructive when challenging decisions; proactive on risks
  • Team-oriented with shared ownership and knowledge transfer

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