Senior Java Developer, Solution Architect- Vice President

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Job Overview

We’re seeking a seasonedSenior Java Developer / Solution Architectwith 15–18 years of experience to lead end-to-end technical design and delivery of mission‑critical systems. You will own architecture decisions, drive engineering excellence, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, security, and platform teams to build scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design
  • Define and evolve system architecture forcloud-native, microservices/event-drivenplatforms (scalability, resilience, security, cost).
  • Createhigh-level and low-level designs, integration patterns, API contracts, and reference implementations.
  • Lead design reviews; ensure alignment withdomain-driven design (DDD),12‑factorprinciples, and organization standards.
• Engineering Leadership
  • Lead squads throughfull SDLC—from discovery and PoCs to production and SRE handoff.
  • Establishcoding standards, code review practices, andsecure-by-defaultpatterns.
  • Mentor and coach senior engineers; support career growth and succession of technical leaders.
• Hands-on Development
  • Build core services usingJava (17+),Spring Boot,REST/GraphQL, and message/event streaming.
  • Optimize forperformance, concurrency, observability, andoperational excellence(SLOs, error budgets).
  • Drive quality withunit/integration/contract testing, test data strategy, and automated quality gates.
• Cloud & Platform
  • Design forAWS/Azure/GCP, container orchestration (Kubernetes),service mesh, andCI/CD.
  • Implementinfrastructure-as-code (IaC)patterns and secrets management.
  • Partner with SRE/Platform teams onmonitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and cost governance.
• Data & Integration
  • Architect integrations acrossSQL/NoSQL,caching(Redis), andevent streams(Kafka/Pulsar).
  • Definedata contracts, schema evolution strategies, andidempotent/eventual consistencypatterns.
• Security & Compliance
  • EmbedAppSecbest practices,OWASPcontrols, secure API/auth (OAuth2/OIDC), andzero trustpatterns.
  • Ensure compliance withregulatoryandauditrequirements where applicable.
• Stakeholder Partnership
  • Translate business needs into technical roadmaps andarchitecture runway.
  • Communicate trade-offs and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• GenAI :Knowledge of MCP, A2A, Agentic Architecture

Required Qualifications

• 15–18 yearsof progressive experience building enterprise systems, with7+ yearsinJavaandSpringat scale.
• Proven delivery ofcloud-native,microservices, andevent-drivenarchitectures.
• 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) andNoSQL(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 ofconcurrency,performance tuning,resiliency patterns(circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads), andfault-tolerance.
• Demonstrated leadership ofarchitectural forums,design reviews, andmentorship.
• 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
• Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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