Java Architect

• 15 + years of professional experience in software engineering and architecture roles, with extensive hands-on coding and systems design.
• Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot microservices, event-driven systems (e.g., using Kafka, Axon, etc.), synchronous and asynchronous communications, domain-driven design.
• Strong knowledge of distributed system design: high throughput, low latency, fail-fast, resilient architectures, graceful degradation, fault isolation.
• Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and hybrid cloud / on-prem integrations.
• Skilled in architecture modelling and documentation using modern tools and frameworks (C4, UML, etc.).
• Excellent understanding of integration patterns, messaging, service orchestration, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), caching, databases (SQL & NoSQL).
• Proven capability to articulate design trade-offs, influence senior stakeholders (engineering leads, product leadership, executives) and lead architecture decisions.
• Strong communication skills: ability to simplify complex architecture concepts, present to non-technical audiences (product/business) and collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
• Experience in payments, fintech, commerce platforms or similarly complex, regulated, high-scale systems is highly desirable.

Proven track record of setting standards, leading architecture practice, mentoring teams, driving governance and improving architectural maturity in an organization