Technical Architect Java

Technical Architect – Java, Cloud & Enterprise Platforms
Core Technical Skills
· 10+ years of overall IT experience with a strong focus on designing and developing Java Spring Boot–based enterprise solutions.
· Strong hands on experience with Java and Spring Boot in enterprise environments.
· Experience designing and building solutions on AWS / cloud platforms.
· Experience with messaging & Event driven architecture (Kafka).
· Experience with rules engines, specifically IBM ODM Tool.
· Strong knowledge of caching and in memory data grid solutions.
· Proven expertise in API design (REST and gRPC concepts).
· Experience in CICD
· Experience implementing structured logging, metrics, and tracing in distributed systems.

Technical Design & Architecture
Strong experience in enterprise system architecture and technical design.
Ability to create high level and low level designs, including component diagrams, sequence flows, and deployment views.
Experience designing distributed, cloud native architectures.
Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, performance, and fault tolerance patterns.
Experience defining integration patterns, messaging strategies, and data flow designs.
Ability to evaluate design options and make well reasoned architectural trade offs.

General & Professional Skills
· Solid understanding of SDLC and enterprise delivery models.
· Strong communication and articulation skills, both written and verbal.
· Proven experience working in customer facing roles.
· Ability to translate business requirements into robust technical designs.
· Strong problem solving mindset and ownership attitude.

Nice to Have Skills
· Payment networks / card processing domain knowledge
· Decision management systems and advanced rule governance
· Experience with high volume, low latency transactional platforms
· Exposure to regulated environments (PCI, security sensitive systems)