ARCHITECT JAVA JOB DESCRIPTION

A Java Architect who cannot translate stakeholder requirements into coherent system design leaves development teams building toward conflicting targets. Good architecture is the difference between a release cycle measured in weeks and one measured in quarters. The Architect Java owns the structural decisions for enterprise Java applications, from initial design patterns through production support, working within delivery teams that serve external clients or internal business units across multiple project engagements. In consulting and enterprise software contexts, this role is the technical authority that product managers, project leads, and junior engineers depend on to keep complex systems coherent under pressure.

As the Architect Java, you will define and own the technical architecture of large-scale enterprise Java applications, ensuring designs meet both immediate delivery targets and long-term scalability requirements. You will operate within cross-functional delivery teams alongside product managers, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders, typically reporting to a Director of Engineering or Principal Architect.

Career Impact: Deep expertise in enterprise Java architecture - spanning domain modeling, microservices decomposition, and RESTful API design - positions you as a named technical authority on engagements that shape a client's core platform.

Business Impact: The quality of your architectural decisions directly determines whether enterprise clients can onboard new services on schedule or face costly rework, making this role central to delivery outcomes measured in contract value and client retention.

Growth Opportunity: Architects in this track typically advance to Principal Architect or Engineering Director within three to five years, with expanded scope across practice leadership and pre-sales technical consulting.

Company Value: Several source examples offer remote flexibility with periodic team collaboration, reflecting an environment that balances delivery accountability with autonomy over where and how work gets done.

• Design enterprise Java application architectures spanning component structure, integration patterns, and production support boundaries.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders and translate outcomes into formal architectural specifications.
• Architect proof-of-concept solutions to evaluate new technology approaches before committing to full implementation.
• Review code and technical designs produced by development teams to enforce architectural standards and quality gates.
• Partner with DevOps, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure deployment architectures meet performance and compliance requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers and developers in architectural principles, design patterns, and technical decision-making.
• Coordinate with project managers and product owners on estimation, scope definition, and technical feasibility assessments.
• Monitor production system metrics and own 3rd-level escalation resolution for critical architectural issues.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• 6 or more years of Java application architecture experience, with demonstrated delivery of scalable enterprise systems across multiple client or business unit engagements.
• Proven ability to design multi-tier distributed systems including microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical design reviews, code reviews, and architectural governance across active development teams.
• Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational database design, data modeling, and query performance analysis.
• Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and iterative release cycles.
• Ability to produce clear architectural documentation, technical specifications, and estimates for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Hands-on experience with containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipeline design in enterprise delivery environments.
• Prior exposure to pre-sales or client-facing consulting activities, including tender responses or proof-of-concept scoping.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture patterns in AWS or equivalent hyperscaler environments.
• Experience with event streaming platforms and asynchronous messaging architectures at scale.

• Architectural review cycle time, measuring how quickly design approvals unblock sprint-level development work.
• Production incident escalation rate attributed to architectural defects, tracked per release.
• Proof-of-concept delivery rate against committed timelines across active project engagements.
• Percentage of architectural documentation completed and current relative to deployed system state.
• Stakeholder acceptance rate of architectural recommendations in design review sessions, measured per quarter.
• Typical tools: version control and CI/CD (commonly Git, Jenkins, or Bamboo); container orchestration (commonly Kubernetes or OpenShift); API and integration frameworks (commonly Spring Boot, Maven).

• Base Salary Range: $140,000 to $185,000 annually depending on experience and location.
• Bonus: 8 to 15% annual performance bonus, common in consulting and enterprise software firms.
• Equity: RSUs or profit-sharing where applicable; varies significantly by employer type.
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer contribution varies by firm size.
• PTO: 15 to 20 days annually plus public holidays; some firms offer unlimited PTO.
• Common Perks: Conference attendance budget, certification reimbursement, and remote work flexibility.

Figures are estimates based on general US market benchmarks and may be outdated. Adjust based on location, company size, and seniority level.

Work authorization in the United States is required for all applicants; employment is contingent on the right to work without sponsorship unless explicitly stated otherwise. Background screening, which may include verification of employment history and education, is a condition of hire. Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities are available throughout the application and employment process upon request. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

The Architect Java owns the design, development, and governance of a multi-tenant shared service platform, establishing integration standards and cloud integration roadmaps across Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, and Application development teams. This role shapes enterprise-wide outcomes by delivering scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud integration solutions that support application onboarding and long-term strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and document platform shared services, create integration standards and standard operating procedures.
• Be a liaison between Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Security and Application development and Business teams in building solutions with platform services.
• Define plan and roadmap for application onboarding to the platforms, building processes, standard guidelines and platform integration standards.
• Lead operations of executing the cloud integration roadmap and drive short-term goals and long-term strategic plans and objectives.
• Work with multiple agency and application teams to identify, enable and deliver a scalable, secure, reliable and cost-effective cloud integration solution.
• Establish the governance model for platform shared services and cloud integration solutions, working closely with the security team to align on security compliance.
• Code, refactor, design simple working solutions, troubleshoot system issues, and analyze and resolve critical time-sensitive production tickets.
• Architect and develop web applications using Node.JS, Spring, and Angular frameworks, providing technical support across multi-tier web architecture.
• Analyze, design, build and implement end-to-end solution delivery.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree.
• At least 12 years of experience planning, designing, building, and implementing IT systems, including at least 10 years architecting multi-tier web solutions.
• At least 5 years in direct supervision and management of major projects involving professional support services and/or integration of large complex system architectures.
• At least 5 years leading solution architecture and development of large-scale cloud applications using Java/J2EE, Microservices, RESTful APIs, Identity and Access Management, API Gateway, PostgreSQL, and Big Data platforms, and at least 5 years in Child Services domain especially Enforcement & Financials.
• Experience architecting large-scale cloud solutions in AWS, and with application security architecture including ports, protocol, encryption, and certificates.
• Strong programming skills in Node.JS, Java, J2EE, Spring, JavaScript, Hibernate, and JSON for multi-tier distributed and highly scalable applications.
• Experience with DevOps automation, containerization, and orchestration technologies, and Agile development methodologies.
• Knowledge of IAM, Enterprise Service Bus, API Gateway, Cloud Security, Docker/Kubernetes, Log Management, and Vulnerability and Risk Management products.

Embedded within a multi-platform application portfolio team, the Architect Java leads oversight and technical leadership across all phases of the development and maintenance life cycle, assisting developers in resolving technical issues. Working closely with customers, product managers, and cross-functional teams, this role delivers optimized system designs and enterprise solutions that advance the quality and reliability of business applications.

Core Functions

• Responsible for solutioning and programming on specific application subsets of the company's application portfolio, participating in all phases of the development and maintenance life cycle.
• Maintain active relationships with customers to determine business requirements, lead requirements gathering meetings, and review designs with the business.
• Participate in design, development, and implementation of architectural deliverables to optimize system design, serving as technical SME assisting product managers in developing Agile features.
• Own the change request process and coordinate with other teams as necessary, developing and owning the list of final enhancements.
• Develop and define application scope and objectives, and supervise preparation of technical and functional specifications.
• Perform technical design reviews and code reviews, ensuring unit and system testing are completed and the system is implemented according to plan.
• Lead multiple or large projects and facilitate large group JAD sessions for requirements and modeling across several disciplines.
• Review and monitor initiatives for end-to-end impact, and participate in enterprise solution decision making.
• Work as a member of a design, build, and test agile team continuously releasing new features.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall software development experience across multiple platforms with expert-level business and technical application knowledge.
• 5+ years of experience with Java EE, Spring, JPA, ORM, and ODM.
• Expert in REST/SOAP web services, integration, vulnerabilities, and web service security mechanisms.
• Experience in Microservices design, architecture, and development using Java, Spring Boot, Batch processing, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Cloud Data Flow, and MAVEN.
• Strong hands-on experience in Angular JS, Node JS, MongoDB, SOAP, Java microservices, Eclipse, Git, Gradle, Sonar, Jenkins, Jira, Artifactory, RAD, and WebSphere.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases including Oracle, DB2, and MongoDB, and additional knowledge of Hadoop/HIVE/Spark, Scala, Python, HBase, and Cloudera is a plus.
• Experienced in containerization and orchestration tools such as OpenShift or Kubernetes, and with Atlassian tools, GitHub, Bamboo, and other DevOps tools.
• Experienced in designing business events and orchestration/streaming through Kafka, and familiarity with Spring Cloud frameworks is a plus.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, and familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

Reporting to the project leadership team, the Architect Java shapes high-quality software solutions across domains including New Product Introduction, network mediation, and Western Canada provisioning, providing high-level estimates and driving scalable system design. Partnering with business analysts, development teams, and a major client's IT organization, this role enables reliable and optimized solution delivery by forming target architectures and ensuring issue-free production deployments.

Primary Duties

• Provide high-level project estimates for planning purposes, and analyze business requirements to ensure system requirements drive a scalable, robust, and optimized design.
• Design and construct proof of concept solutions as needed, and provide analysis and recommendations for new software as required.
• Provide feedback and direction to team to ensure efficient designs, and help form target architecture to demonstrate project opportunities.
• Provide data test planning and direct environment readiness to support test activities.
• Support the project team with challenges and defect resolution during construction and test activities.
• Build and provide input and approval of deployment plans, ensuring issue-free deployments of new code to production.
• Ensure architecture diagrams and as-built design documentation are in place and kept up to date over time.
• Monitor and interpret application availability metrics, proactively taking actions to achieve key results, and building new metrics as necessary.
• Solve production issues as 3rd-level escalation contact.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, IT, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience providing solutions at an architect level, including 3+ years delivering scalable enterprise systems.
• Experience with web services such as Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, SOA, XML, and SOAP.
• Deep knowledge of DB systems such as Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, SQL, data modeling, and performance analysis.
• Excellent development skills in Java, J2EE, PL/SQL, and shell including web services, and experience with high availability, clusters, load balancing, and performance analysis tools.
• Strong technical writing, troubleshooting, and performance analysis and tuning skills.
• Proven ability to meet aggressive deadlines, and build bridges with technical and non-technical teams.
• Agile experience is an asset.

Sitting at the intersection of sophisticated design and collaborative infrastructure engineering, the Architect Java leads efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications, architecting and deploying solutions capable of serving millions of users. Operating across business, product engineering, and management stakeholders in different geographic locations, this role delivers performance-optimized, high-quality Java applications through rigorous code reviews, proof of concept evaluations, and cross-functional Agile teamwork.

Duties

• Design and build applications for the Java platform, applying sound design principles.
• Understand business problems and suggest appropriate technology solutions.
• Drive Proof of Concepts and Proof of Technology evaluations.
• Lead engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications using a variety of languages and technology stacks.
• Produce first-class technical documentation and realistic estimates from requirements and mockups.
• Architect, design, build, and deploy cutting-edge solutions at scale capable of serving millions of users.
• Create and recommend solution design options factoring in requirements, standards, and current infrastructure, and present solutions to stakeholders.
• Ensure performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications, upholding code quality, organization, and automation.
• Perform regular code and architecture reviews across diverse technologies, identify and correct bottlenecks, and fix bugs.
• Collaborate with co-workers and clients to define, design, and ship new features in an Agile environment.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience building multi-threaded, high-performance scalable and distributed large-scale systems, including real-time applications, transactional systems, and encryption.
• Hands-on experience architecting and developing large-scale core Java applications, with deep understanding of application and infrastructure operations.
• Able to quickly understand existing applications, with a strong grasp of relational and non-relational databases.
• Strong troubleshooting, diagnostic, and problem-solving ability.
• Guides and mentors team members to promote highly technical and self-sufficient teams, and participates in community knowledge sharing and skill-building activities.
• Self-driven with strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate across business, product engineering, and management in different geographic locations.

A key member of a development team deployed at customer premises, the Architect Java builds and evolves component architectures and proof of concept solutions while cooperating directly with a major client's IT team on site. Collaborating across technical working groups, member state representatives, and software developers, this role enables reliable system operations by verifying code quality, managing deployments, and troubleshooting production issues across all environments.

Technical Responsibilities

• Contribute to the evolution of the current architecture and propose improvements.
• Design and develop the application component architecture and building blocks, and design and implement proof of concept solutions.
• Assess changes of infrastructure including architectural changes, and assess the feasibility of new projects and draft technical requirements.
• Review technical documentation, including code review.
• Participate in technical working groups, progress meetings, and meetings with member states technical representatives.
• Define and verify correct implementation of source code quality metrics by software developers.
• Troubleshoot technical issues across all environments including production priority one issues.
• Deploy new releases, executing all necessary steps such as WL deployment and database updates.
• Build, deploy, and configure software on local environment.

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of combined relevant university studies and IT experience, with at least 6 years of total experience in J2EE development.
• Deep knowledge of J2EE, Oracle WebLogic, SOA, microservices, UI frameworks, Java and JavaScript frameworks including JPA, MVC, SOAP/REST, JSF, Servlets, EJBs, JavaScript/JSON/jQuery/Angular 2, design patterns, and best practices.
• Deep knowledge of Oracle DBMS SQL and DDL including data modelling, indexing, and performance improvements.
• Experience in application monitoring, reporting, and operations of deployed systems, as well as building robust and fault-tolerant front-end to back-end and web-service interfaces.
• Data analysis and data modelling skills.
• Good software documentation drafting skills, with strong coordination, communication, and ability to work autonomously.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Technically advancing a UI testing product for large and medium-sized companies across industries depends on the Architect Java, who selects technology stacks, oversees cloud adoption, and creates functional and technical designs aligned with the product roadmap. Based within a vendor organization and working alongside the CTO, pre-sales teams, and tech leads, this role shapes product direction and integration quality while supporting development teams and engaging partners and customers as a technical evangelist.

Scope of Work

• Select the best technology stack to position the product for the future.
• Oversee the adoption of cloud-based capabilities with respect to the technology stack.
• Interact with potential customers during the pre-sales phase whenever needed.
• Work as a technical evangelist to present partners and customers in association with the CTO.
• Assist in future direction planning by contributing to the creation of the product roadmap.
• Develop high-quality functional designs per requirements and obtain stakeholder approval.
• Create top-flight technical designs for significant product integration and optimization.
• Manage the production of in-depth technical designs by the tech lead.
• Offer technical support to development teams whenever required.
• Develop intuitive, non-technical testing solutions for technical issues.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing cloud-based solutions, with thorough knowledge of web technologies including TypeScript, HTML5, and NodeJS.
• Complete knowledge of test automation and associated challenges.
• Good understanding of Salesforce and related concepts, along with either an administration certificate or hands-on Trailhead experience.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology.
• Exceptional written communication skills with an eye for detail, and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Technical aptitude and willingness to learn.
• Permit to work in UK.
• 40 hours of weekly working time, Monday to Friday, and option to work remotely with once-a-week team meet at a shared working space in Old Street, London.
• Attractive salary package and flexible work hours.

As the Architect Java, this role designs and delivers staff and customer-facing financial applications including multi-currency account opening, cloud-hosted investment platforms, and AI-based financial advice solutions. The financial services technology team relies on this work to modernize customer onboarding, enable real-time transactions, and support relationship managers and premium customers across mobile and digital channels.

Key Deliverables

• Enable customers to open multi-currency accounts in real time.
• Design modern front-end solutions, and manage communication with back-end systems using API, MuleSoft, and API-level SaaS authentication.
• Deliver international customer onboarding via a mobile solution using modern communication channels including videoconference, designed for both Android and iPhone.
• Develop a cloud-hosted investment platform.
• Provide online AI-based financial advice for customers based on cloud.
• Build a staff-channel strategic financial planner that guides customers in choosing the best products based on risk appetite.

Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience as an IT Architect, ideally with a university or college degree in IT or a related discipline.
• Experience with large-scale Java-based software development projects.
• Familiarity with architectural patterns and ability to prepare IT solutions for projects.
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with Java, Spring, MuleSoft, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Oracle RDBMS, MongoDB, Jenkins, Visual Paradigm, AWS, React, AngularJS, DevOps, and Agile.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to effectively interact with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Proactive with good influencing skills.

Java Architect leads end-to-end project lifecycles building large-scale Java applications from the ground up, guiding business and software engineering teams from initial conception through flawless delivery with an emphasis on scalability, modularity, and performance. The work directly supports clients through architectural consulting, pre-sales tender responses, and group-wide thought leadership initiatives that advance the organization's technical excellence and architectural practice.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Work with business and software engineering teams to build Java applications from the ground up.
• Guide teams through the end-to-end project lifecycle covering conception, business requirements, software architecture, implementation, and delivery.
• Act as technical lead and coach for junior team members.
• Provide technological and architectural consulting, technical recommendations, and execution guidance to clients.
• Support pre-sales on tender responses, proof-of-concept work, and design of innovative solutions with emphasis on scalability, modularity, flexibility, and performance.
• Run group-wide thought leadership initiatives to advance architectural practice and sustain technical excellence.

Professional Experience

• 6+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale Java applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with Spring/Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate or other ORM, and build tools such as Maven and Gradle, and solid knowledge of integration patterns including RESTful APIs, messaging, and publish-subscribe, as well as domain modeling and domain-driven design.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift, and strong knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, and code quality best practices.
• Experience with front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue, and cloud/stream platforms such as AWS and Kafka is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in monitoring, troubleshooting, and profiling systems using tools such as JMeter, Java Flight Recorder, and Java Mission Control.
• Passion for clean code and pragmatic, elegant design, and enthusiasm, creativity, flexibility, and team spirit.
• Good communication skills, fluent in French or German and in English.