Java Lead/Architect (with Camunda)

Need consultants with 15+ years of experience.

Java Lead/Architect (with Camunda)

Assignment Duration: 12 Months

Work Location: Remote (San Francisco, CA / Austin, TX)

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture design and technical strategy for enterprise financial platforms.
• Design and develop scalable Java applications using Camunda BPM7/8 (Zeebe engine highly desirable), Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Build secure and high-performance REST APIs for enterprise integrations.
• Implement event-driven architecture using Kafka for saga orchestration and compensation workflows.
• Design distributed transaction handling using Saga and eventual consistency patterns.
• Architect and optimize PostgreSQL databases ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Design and implement microservices following domain-driven design principles.
• Lead Azure cloud deployments, scaling, monitoring, and cost governance.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build and release management.
• Enforce enterprise-grade security standards including OAuth 2.0 implementation.
• Build resilient microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Cloud Gateway, Resilience4j.
• Implement observability stack Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / OpenSearch, Distributed tracing (Jaeger / Zipkin)
• Design secure API ecosystems with Rate limiting, Token introspection, mTLS
• Establish logging and monitoring frameworks using Log4j, SLF4J, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Oversee automated testing strategy using JUnit, Mockito, and Selenium.
• Drive front-end integration and performance optimization (Vue.js ecosystem).

Required Technical

Expertise:

• 15+ years of enterprise Java development experience.
• Strong architecture and solution design background.
• Advanced hands-on expertise in Camunda BPM (workflow and decision automation).
• Experience migrating from legacy BPM tools to Camunda.
• Exposure to Temporal.io or other workflow engines.
• Experience with GraphQL gateways.
• Knowledge of reactive programming (Project Reactor).
• Hands-on experience with Workflow engine scaling strategies, BPM versioning & migration, Multi-tenant workflow design
• Strong knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, Event Sourcing
• Financial systems compliance exposure PCI-DSS, SOX, Audit logging architecture