Java Solution Architect

Brandon Consulting Associates, Inc.

Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

ONLY : CG OR USC.

About the Role:

Were looking for a Principal Architect who is a true thought leader and practitioner in distributed systems microservices event-driven architectures and large-scale payment platforms. You will partner across product engineering and architecture teams to define and document reference architectures drive standards and deliver resilient performant scalable and secure systems. Youll combine deep technical hands-on experience with strategic vision translating business goals into real architecture solutions and influencing across the organization.

Youll work closely with principal architects engineering managers and product leaders to define how Mastercard delivers low-latency high-throughput fault-tolerant platform at global scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Architect end-to-end payment and platform systems (on-premises hybrid cloud-native) that meet demands of low latency high throughput resilience security and data privacy.
Define and promote architecture principles reference models patterns (e.g. microservices event sourcing CQRS async & sync messaging domain-driven design) and guide teams in adoption.
Document architecture using modern modelling tools and techniques (e.g. C4 UML deployment/sequence/data diagrams); ensure architecture artifacts are clear actionable and accessible to engineering and product teams.
Evaluate design trade-offs (latency vs throughput vs cost; consistency vs availability; complexity vs maintainability; security vs usability) and make decisions transparently.
Be highly hands-on: able to dig into Java/Spring Boot microservices event flows integration architectures observability failure handling and recovery strategies.
Collaborate closely with product leadership to translate roadmap items (e.g. tokenization passkeys BNPL) into architecture design providing options implications and trade-off analysis.
Provide mentorship and leadership in architecture governance: review design proposals perform risk assessments drive architectural reviews lead a Center of Excellence for architecture practices.
Engage across engineering domains: partner with cloud infrastructure security devops data teams to ensure architecture meets cross-cutting non-functional requirements and is delivery-ready.
Drive innovation: explore new open-source technologies event frameworks data streaming AI/ML integration real-time analytics and bring pragmatic proposals into the platform roadmap.
Influence culture: promote architecture best practices drive continuous improvement contribute to knowledge-sharing forums build architecture community within the organization.

Required Skills & Experience:

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 GCP 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

Certifications such as TOGAF AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) CISSP or equivalent.
Familiarity with DevOps/CI-CD practices containerization (Kubernetes Docker) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
Exposure to AI/ML stream processing real-time analytics platforms.
Experience working in a product-engineering facing role in a payments/commerce environment with exposure to tokenization payment passkeys BNPL etc.

Brandon Consulting Associates Inc. is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and has been in business for 29years.

ONLY : CG OR USC. About the Role: Were looking for a Principal Architect who is a true thought leader and practitioner in distributed systems microservices event-driven architectures and large-scale payment platforms. You will partner across product engineering and architecture teams to define an...