Senior Java Developer Solution Architect - Vice President

**Role Summary** We’re seeking a seasoned **Senior Java Developer Solution Architect** with 6+ 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 for **cloud-native, microservices/event-driven** platforms (scalability, resilience, security, cost). * Create **high-level and low-level designs**, integration patterns, API contracts, and reference implementations. * Lead design reviews; ensure alignment with **domain-driven design (DDD)**, **12‑factor** principles, and organization standards. * **Engineering Leadership** * Lead squads through **full SDLC**—from discovery and PoCs to production and SRE handoff. * Establish **coding standards**, code review practices, and **secure-by-default** patterns. * Mentor and coach senior engineers; support career growth and succession of technical leaders. * **Hands-on Development** * Build core services using **Java (17+)**, **Spring Boot**, **REST/GraphQL**, and message/event streaming. * Optimize for **performance, concurrency, observability**, and **operational excellence** (SLOs, error budgets). * Drive quality with **unit/integration/contract testing**, test data strategy, and automated quality gates. * **Cloud & Platform** * 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 **7+ 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 * Master’s degree preferred This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. 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