Career & experience

Technical ownership from discovery to production.

Java has been the foundation of my career. My work has expanded from implementation into architecture, engineering leadership and wider delivery responsibility, while staying close to the code.

Career journey

Software engineering through the full delivery lifecycle.

Employers and responsibilities are shown at a high level. Client and project identifiers are intentionally excluded.

2024 — Present

Public-sector digital services

Accenture UK

Senior Technical Lead / Technical Architect

Primary technical authority for multiple concurrent greenfield Java programmes, with additional delivery leadership responsibilities spanning product discovery through live operations.

Owned microservice boundaries, technology choices, HLDs/LLDs, OpenAPI contracts, data models and service-to-service authentication; worked through formal client architecture review.
Designed and implemented reusable Java libraries, complex components and a BDD automation framework; championed TDD, quality gates and mandatory code reviews.
Led seven Java engineers across parallel projects and worked across testing, platform, product and operational teams throughout SIT, non-functional testing, go-live and warranty.
Supported migration of an existing production application from a managed Kubernetes environment to an internal platform, leading application-level test readiness and coordination of dashboards, alerts and integration checks.

2023 — 2024

Enterprise transformation and public services

Ernst & Young UK

Solution Architect Manager

Designed enterprise technology solutions and advised on architecture, integration, maintainability and cloud cost effectiveness.

Designed a centralised customer-data solution for a public healthcare organisation, translating business needs into a coherent target architecture.
Performed AWS cloud cost-effectiveness analysis to support architecture options and commercial decision-making.
Defined solution patterns and reviewed performance, security and infrastructure trade-offs with technical and business stakeholders.

2022 — 2023

Central banking platform renewal

Accenture UK

Lead Engineer — Java & Integration

Hands-on Java/Spring Boot engineering within a greenfield, high-assurance payments modernisation programme.

Personally developed a participant-onboarding module and contributed to calculations and charges functionality.
Designed application components and service integration using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and enterprise messaging patterns.
Supported technical analysis, test automation, integration defect investigation, go-live preparation and production support.

2015 — 2021

Insurance technology

Cognizant UK

Technical Lead — Java & Solution Design

Led software design and Java-centred engineering across insurance technology initiatives.

Guided hands-on application development, integration, technical design, testing and production support.
Mentored developers, reviewed code and coordinated the resolution of complex application and integration issues.

2009 — 2015

Enterprise banking technology

Intellect Design Arena / Polaris

Senior Technical Analyst

Built the foundation of a Java engineering career through enterprise banking application delivery and integration.

Designed and developed Java/J2EE components and worked across requirements analysis, implementation, releases and production support.
Collaborated directly with business and technology teams to translate requirements into maintainable software.

Contact

Let’s discuss the next complex problem worth solving.

I am interested in senior Java engineering, technical architecture and engineering leadership opportunities where sound design must translate into reliable software.

hello@arunrajapandy.com

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom