Associate Architect – Java

Location: Pune, India

Department: Product Development

Experience: 8–12 years

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• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions for enterprise applications.
• Own and drive the architecture of product features and technical capabilities across the frontend, backend, integration, data, and deployment layers.
• Translate business and non-functional requirements into high-level and low-level designs, architecture diagrams, APIs, data flows, and technical specifications.
• Design and review microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and integration solutions.
• Evaluate technology options, design alternatives, and technical trade-offs.
• Identify architectural risks, dependencies, constraints, and technical debt and drive appropriate solutions.
• Contribute to the product's architecture roadmap and long-term technical strategy.

• Provide technical leadership across backend and frontend development.
• Design and review backend solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, REST APIs and related enterprise design patterns.
• Design and review frontend solutions using Angular, TypeScript, reactive programming, and component-based architecture.
• Define reusable technical patterns and guidelines for areas such as API design, error handling, validation, configuration, caching, session management, and frontend architecture.
• Conduct design/code reviews and ensure adherence to sound software engineering principles and architecture standards.
• Mentor developers and guide teams in solving complex technical problems.
• Remain hands-on with PoCs, technical spikes, critical implementations, and troubleshooting when required.

• Design and guide implementation of cloud-native applications using containers, Kubernetes, microservices, and managed cloud services.
• Design solutions for high availability, horizontal scalability, resilience, fault isolation, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery.
• Define appropriate patterns for caching, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, rate limiting, and failure handling.
• Work with DevOps/platform teams on deployment architecture, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, metrics, monitoring, alerting and operational readiness.
• Contribute to technology and architecture decisions for cloud platforms and Kubernetes environments.

• Apply security-by-design principles across authentication, authorization, API security, session management, secure configuration, and data protection.
• Design and review integrations with enterprise systems, external APIs, identity providers, and third-party services.
• Define appropriate API, authentication, error-handling, and integration patterns.
• Design and review data access and persistence solutions using PostgreSQL and related technologies.
• Identify and address application, API, and database performance concerns.

• Provide technical direction and mentorship to developers and senior engineers across multiple squads or workstreams.
• Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, technical workshops, and solution evaluations.
• Conduct code and design reviews and ensure implementation remains aligned with the agreed architecture.
• Establish and promote architecture principles, coding standards, design patterns, engineering guidelines, and reusable components.
• Proactively identify and manage technical debt and drive initiatives to improve platform stability and maintainability.
• Coach engineers on architectural thinking, system design, secure coding, troubleshooting, and engineering best practices.

• Work closely with product managers, business analysts, project managers, QA, DevOps, security teams, and clients.
• Participate in requirement workshops, architecture reviews, technical discussions, solution presentations, and PoCs.
• Explain technical concepts and architectural trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to product roadmap, technology strategy, and architecture evolution.
• Balance customer-specific requirements with long-term product scalability, maintainability, and reusability.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8–12 years of professional experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Angular/TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and software design patterns.
• Strong understanding of Spring Security, authentication, authorization, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and API security.
• Experience with cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern deployment practices.
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL and relational database concepts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and work effectively with cross-functional and global teams.
• Willingness to work from the office as required.

• Experience with cloud-native SaaS or multi-tenant applications.
• Experience with SAP ecosystem.
• Experience with Redis, API gateways, observability platforms, or similar technologies.
• Experience with payment or financial technology integrations.
• Exposure to secure SDLC, performance engineering, and production troubleshooting.