Principal Java Microservices Architect — AI & Agentic Platforms

We at Publicis Sapient enable our clients to thrive in Next and to create business value through expert strategies customer-centric experience design and world-class product engineering. The future of business is disruptive transformative and becoming digital to the our 20 years in IT never before have we seen such a dire need for transformation in every major industry - from financial services to automotive consumer products retail energy and travel.

To make this transformative journey a reality in these exciting times we seek Rockstars who will:

brave it out to go do the next; what will be from what is exhibit the optimism that says there is no limit to what we can achieve deeply skilled bold collaborative flexible. Reimagine the way the world works to help businesses improve the daily lives of people and the world. Our people thrive because of the belief that it is both our privilege and responsibility to usher our clients and the world into Next.

Our work is fueled by challenging boundaries multidisciplinary collaboration highly agile teams and the power of the newest technologies and platforms. If thats you come talk to us. This is the world-class engineering team where you should build your career!

We are seeking a Principal Java Microservices Architect AI & Agentic Platforms to lead the architecture design and implementation of our core distributed microservices ecosystem.

Hands-on and possesses deep expertise in:

• Enterprise Java microservices architecture
• Agentic AI systems & tool-calling backend frameworks
• AI orchestration frameworks
• Cloud-native distributed architectures
• Enterprise automation platforms and
• High-throughput backend system engineering.

This role requires strong experience with:

• Java 17/21 and Spring Boot
• Google GCP and AI ecosystem
• Agent Development Kit (ADK) & Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Modern AI application microservices architectures.

• 12 years of software engineering experience.
• 7 years in microservices architecture system design or technical leadership roles.
• Strong hands-on development experience with:
• Java (17/21) Spring Boot Spring Cloud Reactive Java (Project Reactor / RxJava) gRPC GraphQL WebSockets REST APIs.
• TypeScript Python (for AI framework bindings orchestration and scripting).
• ecosystems (nice to have for cross-platform integration).
• Deep expertise in distributed backend microservices architecture fault tolerance (Resilience4j) caching (Redis) and database design (Relational & NoSQL).
• Strong experience building enterprise-grade high-concurrency Java backend systems.
• Experience designing AI-powered conversational and agentic backend applications.
• Strong cloud-native architecture experience (Google Cloud / AWS / Azure).
• Hands-on expertise with Docker Kubernetes (GKE) Service Mesh (Istio) Cloud CI/CD and monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Datadog).
• Hands-on expertise (preferred) with :
• AI Agents Tools and Model Context Protocols (MCPs).
• Google Agent Development Kit (ADK).
• AI copilots autonomous business workflows and intelligent enterprise search systems.
• Scalable resilient cloud-native backend platforms.

Pay Range: $165000 - $205000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits of Working Here:

• Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited allocated or accrued
• 16 paid holidays throughout the year
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Corporate gift matching program

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