Solution Architect (Java & Angular) with Banking / Credit Cards exp

Location/s: Pittsburgh, PA (1st preference) / Dallas, TX / Columbus, OH / Strongsville, OH / Charlotte, NC / Phoenix, AZ (3 days a week in office)

Job Type: Contract

Experience Required: 10+ Years

About the Role

The candidate should be able to go beyond high-level architecture discussions and clearly explain design decisions, trade-offs, failure scenarios, and real-world production considerations. We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to design scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise applications for the banking industry. Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Angular, and modern cloud-native architecture is required.

Key Screening Focus

• Java + Spring Boot + Microservices + Angular + Banking/Credit Cards + Distributed Systems + Kubernetes + Resilience + System Design

Skills

Must-Have Skills

• Java / Spring Boot / Microservices (Advanced/Strong)
  • Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot
  • Strong expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems
  • Ability to explain service boundaries, communication, consistency, and failure handling
• Banking Domain (Intermediate)
  • Banking experience is required
  • Credit Card, payment processing, or card lifecycle experience is strongly preferred
• Angular / Solution Architecture (Advanced)
  • Strong Angular experience
  • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, application integration, and distributed systems

Architecture & Technical Depth

Candidates must demonstrate strong practical knowledge of:

• Microservices & Distributed Systems
  • Saga Pattern
  • Choreography, Orchestration, and compensating transactions
  • Resilience & Fault Tolerance
  • Circuit Breaker, retries, timeouts, backoff, and cascading failure prevention
• Kubernetes
  • Deployments, Services, health probes, resource management, autoscaling, and troubleshooting
• Service Mesh
  • Traffic management, mTLS, observability, retries, and circuit breaking
• CI/CD
  • Automated testing, deployment strategies, rollback, security scanning, and release management
• System Design
  • Scalability, resilience, architectural trade-offs, and failure scenarios