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Overview
Lead the end?to?end technical architecture for a large?scale Debit Card Platform Modernization at a major financial institution. While remaining hands-on in back-end development, this individual will own the full ecosystem design (environments, infrastructure, integrations, data, and applications), and translate architecture into actionable designs for development and delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Own solution architecture across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and resiliency domains.
- Design all environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Performance, Prod) for an on?prem VM?based platform with a path toward hybrid/cloud and OpenShift containerization.
- Establish platform standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
- Convert high?level architecture into detailed designs, build standards, and implementation guides.
- Provide hands?on technical leadership for Java/Spring Boot microservices, API design, and performance optimization.
- Lead architecture and code reviews; provide oversight to dev, infra, DevOps, and security teams.
- Architect event streaming (Kafka), database design (MS SQL Server), APIs, middleware, and batch/real?time integrations.
- Define data flows, resiliency, fault?tolerance, and recovery strategies.
- Partner with infrastructure/DevOps to design CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, monitoring, logging, and observability.
- Ensure platform meets enterprise standards for availability, scalability, security, compliance, and disaster recovery.
- Act as primary technical advisor to program leadership.
- Present architectural decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Support vendor evaluations and mentor technical team members.
Required Skills
- 10+ years in enterprise application development/architecture; 5+ years in a senior/principal architecture role.
- Strong hands?on experience (yes, this role is hands-on coding) with Java, Spring Boot/Cloud, microservices, REST APIs, event?driven patterns.
- Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes, Kafka, MS SQL Server, and on?prem virtualized environments (VMware).
- Background in banking/payments/card processing; understanding of high?availability and regulatory requirements.
- Ability to lead architecture across multiple teams and communicate complex concepts to non?technical leaders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with major card processors (Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, FIS, TSYS).
- Legacy modernization (mainframe/monolith) experience.
- Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Zero Trust / advanced security frameworks.