Role: Solution Architect (Java & Angular) with Banking / Credit Cards exp
Location/s: Pittsburgh, PA (1st preference) / Dallas, TX / Columbus, OH / Strongsville, OH / Charlotte, NC / Phoenix, AZ (3 days a week in office)
Job Type: Contract
Experience Required: 10+ Years
Description:
The candidate should be able to go beyond high-level architecture discussions and clearly explain design decisions, trade-offs, failure scenarios, and real-world production considerations.
Key screening focus:
Java + Spring Boot + Microservices + Angular + Banking/Credit Cards + Distributed Systems + Kubernetes + Resilience + System Design.
Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to design scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise applications for the banking industry.
Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Angular, and modern cloud-native architecture is required.
Must-Have Skills:
1. Java / Spring Boot / Microservices Advanced
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Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
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Strong expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
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Ability to explain service boundaries, communication, consistency, and failure handling.
2. Banking Domain Intermediate
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Banking experience is required.
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Credit Card, payment processing, or card lifecycle experience is strongly preferred.
3. Angular / Solution Architecture Advanced
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Strong Angular experience.
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Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, application integration, and distributed systems.
Architecture & Technical Depth Critical:
Candidates must demonstrate strong practical knowledge of:
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Microservices & Distributed Systems
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Saga Pattern Choreography, Orchestration, and compensating transactions
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Resilience & Fault Tolerance Circuit Breaker, retries, timeouts, backoff, and cascading failure prevention
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Kubernetes Deployments, Services, health probes, resource management, autoscaling, and troubleshooting
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Service Mesh Traffic management, mTLS, observability, retries, and circuit breaking
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CI/CD Automated testing, deployment strategies, rollback, security scanning, and release management
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System Design Scalability, resilience, architectural trade-offs, and failure scenarios
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