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Overview
While remaining hands-on in back-end development and integration, 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
- May own solution architecture across application, integration, data, infrastructure, security, and resiliency domains.
- Design all environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Performance, Prod) for an on-prem VMbased platform with a path toward hybrid/cloud and OpenShift containerization.
- Convert high-level architecture into detailed designs, build standards, and implementation guides.
- Lead architecture and code reviews; provide oversight to dev, infra, DevOps, and security teams.
- Develop 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.
- Support vendor evaluations and mentor technical team members.
Required Skills
- 10+ years in enterprise application development and architecture; this is a principal engineering role
- Strong hands-on development experience 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with major card processors (Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, TSYS).
- Legacy modernization (mainframe/monolith) experience.