Technical Java Architect

Technical Java Architect

Location- Issaquah WA (Hybrid )

12 months

Technical Architect

Java / Spring Boot / GCP

Role Overview

The Technical Architect will be responsible for defining the overall architecture technical

strategy and integration approach for cloud-native applications and enterprise platforms. The

role will guide backend services API integrations cloud infrastructure security scalability and

engineering governance across distributed teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architecture for backend systems integrations and cloud
• deployments
• Lead architecture discussions technical design reviews and solution governance
• Design scalable microservices using Java Spring Boot and cloud-native patterns
• Define API contracts integration patterns orchestration flows and data models
• Guide implementation teams on best practices coding standards and architectural
• decisions
• Design secure and resilient systems with proper authentication authorization encryption
• and audit logging
• Lead third-party/vendor integrations using abstraction and adapter-based architecture
• Partner with DevOps teams on deployment architecture CI/CD observability and
• monitoring
• Ensure performance scalability availability and disaster recovery considerations are
• built into the platform
• Mentor technical leads and engineers across backend frontend and cloud streams
• Support estimation sprint planning production readiness and go-live activities

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Java Spring Boot and Microservices Architecture
• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems and REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture on GCP
• Hands-on experience with:
• GKE
• Cloud Spanner
• Pub/Sub
• Secret Manager
• Cloud Logging & Monitoring

o API Gateway / Apigee

• Strong understanding of integration architecture and vendor API orchestration
• Experience with event-driven systems resiliency patterns retries circuit breakers and

• fallback handling
• Good understanding of database design performance optimization and schema evolution
• Experience implementing security and compliance controls for sensitive/PII data
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines containerization and Kubernetes deployments
• Ability to drive architecture governance and technical leadership across teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Experience with fraud identity verification or customer profile systems
• Experience with observability distributed tracing dashboards and operational metrics
• Experience with GitHub Actions ArgoCD or Cloud Build
• Knowledge of frontend technologies such as React

Preferred Experience

• 10 years of software engineering experience
• 5 years in solution architecture or technical leadership roles
• Experience leading cloud modernization or platform transformation programs
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum delivery models
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical mentoring skills