Senior Technical Lead
Sweden
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Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
Stockholm, Stockholm

Job Summary

  • Own multi-cluster, multi-region Kafka environments on Kubernetes, primarily using Strimzi.
  • Drive platform upgrades, security, resilience, disaster recovery, scaling, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Automate infrastructure and delivery with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, and KEDA.
  • Build observability and proactive alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Fluent Bit, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Provide Tier 3 support, lead root-cause analysis, and advise Java/Spring Boot teams on Kafka client design and configuration.

Create secure self-service tooling for topics, schemas, and credentials, and collaborate with Security, Architecture, and development teams

Key Responsibilities

  • Work on business-critical platform capabilities that support multiple ICA Gruppen businesses and development teams.
  • Take meaningful ownership in a “you build it, you run it” environment with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.
  • Solve complex engineering challenges involving high availability, security, scalability, observability, and cloud-native operations.
  • Shape reusable platform services and self-service experiences that help product teams deliver securely and efficiently at scale.

Collaborate across engineering, security, and architecture in a large enterprise integration environment

Skill Requirements

  • Approximately 4–6 years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Strimzi or equivalent, Kafka Connect, KRaft, Java, and Spring Boot.
  • Strong platform-level expertise in Kafka clusters, performance, security, schema governance, and operational troubleshooting.
  • Practical experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, Linux, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Helm, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
  • Working knowledge of observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Fluent Bit, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, a humble and collaborative approach, and comfort with end-to-end operational ownership.
  • Experience with API management, public cloud platforms, cost optimization, or large-enterprise integration is beneficial.

Fluent English; Swedish is an advantage

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Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.