Responsibilities
Drive end-to-end design and implementation of mission-critical distributed systems leveraging microservices, ensuring ultra-low latency, high throughput, and fault tolerance.
Provide deep architectural leadership across application, infrastructure, and security layers, embedding non-functional attributes (performance, scalability, reliability, resilience, compliance) into every solution.
Translate ambiguous functional requirements into detailed technical design artifacts with traceability across business, regulatory, and operational requirements.
Collaborate with cross-functional SMEs while challenging assumptions to enforce technical rigor and architectural consistency.
Define and enforce enterprise-grade microservice design standards, reusable patterns, and governance models to ensure uniform adoption across large programs.
Architect and deliver accelerators, frameworks, and internal tools to reduce technical debt and raise engineering quality standards across teams.
Continuously evaluate, pilot, and integrate emerging technologies in event-driven architectures, service mesh, observability, and security to strengthen platform capabilities.
Conduct formal design risk assessments, propose alternative strategies, and defend recommendations in front of senior technical and business stakeholders.
Lead technical validation during SIT/UAT phases, ensuring regulatory compliance (PCI, PSD2, MAS guidelines), and provide post-production stabilization leadership.
Requirements
15 years of progressive architecture experience in large-scale enterprise systems.
Proven hands-on expertise in Java/J2EE, Core Java 8+, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud, with ability to deep-dive into code reviews, performance profiling, and debugging.
Advanced understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectures, including REST, SOAP, and event-driven design patterns.
Demonstrated banking/financial services experience in high-volume transaction processing, KYC/AML workflows, and integration with core banking platforms (mandatory).
Strong expertise in middleware/messaging technologies (MQ, JMS, Kafka) and real-time event streaming design.
Proven delivery experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including pod-to-pod communication with Azure Open Service Mesh, and secured service exposure via Azure API Gateway (APIM).
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines for microservices deployment into Kubernetes, ensuring zero-downtime releases.
Advanced knowledge of OAuth2.0, token-based authentication, PKI, PCI-DSS, OWASP security standards, and secure coding practices.
Strong background in SQL Server database optimization, data modeling for financial transactions, and query performance tuning.
Demonstrated expertise in migration of legacy integration platforms (e.g., TIBCO) into cloud-native Spring Boot services.
Ability to mentor, lead, and technically upskill teams, while holding them accountable to architectural and security standards.
Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to defend architectural decisions under pressure.