Senior Java Technical Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the overarching architecture for microservices, ensuring alignment with business and technical objectives.
• Provide technical oversight and guidance on domain-driven design (DDD), service boundaries, and data management strategies.
• Collaborate with senior executives and product owners to develop a multi-year technology roadmap, focusing on scalability, resilience, and high availability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate to maintain a competitive edge.
• Lead teams in designing, developing, and deploying microservices using best practices around RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging.
• Ensure each service adheres to established coding standards, security practices, and API versioning guidelines.
• Oversee capacity planning and performance tuning efforts to handle high throughput and large data volumes.
• Implement fault-tolerant patterns (e.g., circuit breakers, retries, load balancing) and strategies to mitigate single points of failure.
• Advocate for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) best practices, including automated build pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Work with DevOps teams to optimize deployment processes, reduce downtime, and ensure rapid rollbacks when necessary.
• Champion the implementation of centralized logging, distributed tracing, and real-time monitoring tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger).
• Drive incident response and root cause analysis workflows to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Determine data storage solutions (SQL, NoSQL) and data partitioning/sharding strategies aligned with service boundaries.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and regulatory requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) as needed.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, fostering a learning culture through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Partner with project managers, product owners, and QA leads to ensure clear priorities and high-quality deliverables.
• Work closely with business stakeholders, transforming high-level requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Facilitate communication between engineering teams, executive leadership, and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Identify technical risks and propose mitigation strategies, including spikes, proofs of concept, or architectural adjustments.
• Regularly update leadership on project risks, constraints, and timelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent real-world experience).
• 15+ years of experience in software development, with a minimum of 5+ years in an architectural or technical lead capacity.
• Proficiency in microservices architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), and event-driven systems.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and distributed transactions (Saga patterns, eventual consistency).
• Expertise in observability (monitoring, logging, tracing) and performance tuning for large-scale, high-throughput applications.
• Solid background in relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra) with an emphasis on data modeling and scalability.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, able to convey complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
• Prominent leadership and mentorship abilities, adept at guiding teams through change and fostering innovation.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to quickly make informed decisions.
• Certifications in AWS (preferred).
• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or advanced orchestration features for large-scale microservices (preferred).
• Familiarity with security best practices (OAuth2, SAML, PKI) and compliance frameworks (preferred).