Design for AWS/Azure/GCP, container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh, and CI/CD.
Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns and secrets management.
Partner with SRE/Platform teams on monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and cost governance.
Data & Integration
Architect integrations across SQL/NoSQL, caching (Redis), and event streams (Kafka/Pulsar).
Define data contracts, schema evolution strategies, and idempotent/eventual consistency patterns.
Security & Compliance
Embed AppSec best practices, OWASP controls, secure API/auth (OAuth2/OIDC), and zero trust patterns.
Ensure compliance with regulatory and audit requirements where applicable.
Stakeholder Partnership
Translate business needs into technical roadmaps and architecture runway.
Communicate trade-offs and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
GenAI : Knowledge of MCP, A2A, Agentic Architecture
Required Qualifications
6+ years of progressive experience building enterprise systems, with 6+ years in Java and Spring at scale.
Proven delivery of cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
Strong expertise in
Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
REST/GraphQL APIs, gRPC (nice-to-have)
Kafka (or Pulsar), Kubernetes, Docker
RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra/DynamoDB)
Caching (Redis), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins), IaC (Terraform/ARM)
Observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK), feature flags/progressive delivery
Solid grasp of concurrency, performance tuning, resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads), and fault-tolerance.
Demonstrated leadership of architectural forums, design reviews, and mentorship.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Nice-to-Have
Domain knowledge: Payments, banking, capital markets, insurance, e-commerce, supply chain, or telecom.
Security: Threat modeling, shift-left security, SAST/DAST, secrets rotation, mTLS.
Data: CDC (Debezium), schema registry, exactly-once semantics, streaming ETL.
Platform: Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), API gateways (Kong/Apigee), Serverless (Lambda/Functions).
Modern patterns: CQRS, event sourcing, Saga orchestration, hexagonal architecture.
Education
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
Job Family Group
Technology
Job Family
Applications Development
Time Type
Full time
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range
$120,800.00 - $170,800.00
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