Lead Software Engineer

# Business / Organization Overview

We are looking for a high-caliber Senior Java Technical Lead / Architect (C13) to spearhead the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical delivery of enterprise-scale distributed platforms. In this strategic technical leadership position, you will govern large-scale engineering initiatives, drive cloud-native modernization, set foundational architecture patterns, and mentor multiple agile engineering squads across globally distributed teams.

# Role Summary

At the C13 grade, you will operate as a subject matter expert and technical authority combining deep architectural mastery with strategic delivery oversight. You will lead end-to-end design, technology evaluation, security governance, and multi-system integration across distributed microservices, high-throughput event streaming, enterprise databases, and container platforms. You will partner with Directors, Enterprise Architects, Product Managers, and Business Leaders to ensure technology roadmaps align with business transformation objectives.

# Key Responsibilities

## Strategic Architecture & System Design

• Own end-to-end technical architecture, system decomposition, and integration strategy for complex, multi-tiered enterprise systems.

• Define architectural blueprints, domain models, and technical design standards for high-throughput, low-latency, and highly available microservices.

• Lead technology evaluation, Proof of Concepts (PoCs), and modernization roadmaps (e.g., legacy monolith/WebSphere decomposition to cloud-native microservices and event-driven architectures).

• Formally represent the application in Enterprise Architecture Governance, Security Reviews, and Technology Risk committees.

## Technical Governance & Engineering Leadership

• Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight across multiple development teams and technical leads (C11/C12).

• Enforce rigorous engineering standards, Clean Code practices, comprehensive automated testing (TDD/BDD), and robust CI/CD DevOps pipelines.

• Establish standards for non-functional requirements (NFRs) including system resilience, fault tolerance, high availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), low latency, and horizontal scalability.

• Drive modernization of messaging pipelines, event stream topologies, and polyglot persistence layers.

## Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Partner closely with Product Owners, Program Managers, and Executive Stakeholders to translate multi-year business strategies into actionable, phased technical roadmaps.

• Manage architectural risks, technical debt remediation, and capacity planning.

• Act as the senior escalation authority for critical production incidents, driving root cause analysis (RCA) and long-term architectural stability solutions.

## Mentorship & Talent Development

• Foster an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture emphasizing continuous learning, innovation, and technical rigor.

• Mentor and develop senior engineers and technical leads, building leadership pipelines and engineering talent across the organization.

# Required Qualifications & Technical Competencies

## Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.

• 15+ years of overall software engineering experience in enterprise-grade applications, with at least 5+ years in a senior technical lead, software architect or engineering leadership capacity.

• Proven track record of architecting, delivering, and supporting high-throughput, mission-critical systems in financial services, banking, or large enterprise domains.

## Primary Skills & Technical Mastery

• Core Java & Advanced JVM Engineering: Deep mastery of Java (Java 11 / 17 / 21), high-concurrency programming, multithreading, memory management, garbage collection tuning (ZGC/G1), and low-latency optimization.

• Spring Ecosystem & Microservices Architecture: Extensive experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Batch) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).

• Event-Driven Architecture & Distributed Messaging:

• Expert-level design and production operations with Apache Kafka (cluster architecture, partitions, consumer groups, Kafka Streams/Connect, schema registry, idempotent producers).

• Enterprise messaging and integration via IBM MQ / JMS and transaction management across distributed systems (Saga pattern, two-phase commit alternatives).

• API Strategy & Integration Patterns: Advanced RESTful API design, OpenAPI standards, API Gateways, gRPC, OAuth2/OIDC, and mutual TLS (mTLS).

• Polyglot Database Architecture:
• Relational: Oracle (advanced PL/SQL, partitioning, index optimization, query execution plan analysis, Active Data Guard).
• NoSQL / Document: MongoDB (sharding, replica sets, aggregation pipelines, performance tuning at scale).

• Resilience & Fault Tolerance Patterns: Proven experience implementing Circuit Breaker (Resilience4j), Rate Limiting, Bulkheads, and Distributed Tracing (OpenTelemetry/Jaeger).

## Secondary Skills & Modernization Competencies

• Containerization & Cloud Native Platforms: Architectural expertise in container platforms, specifically Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes and AWS ECS, including Pod autoscaling, ingress controllers, and Helm chart lifecycle management.

• Legacy Modernization & Middleware: Experience migrating workloads from legacy application servers (IBM WebSphere WAS/ND) and workflow orchestrators (IBM BAW / BPM) to modern microservices and cloud runtimes.

• Frontend Architecture Exposure: Solid understanding of modern SPA architecture, frontend integration, and frameworks like Angular (TypeScript, state management).

• DevOps & Automation: In-depth knowledge of modern CI/CD automation (Harness, Tekton, Jenkins), infrastructure-as-code, and automated security scanning tools (SonarQube, Checkmarx, Snyk, Prisma).

# Leadership & Executive Competencies

• Strategic Vision: Ability to conceptualize multi-year technical strategies and execute them incrementally within agile frameworks.

• Executive Communication: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, capable of influencing both technical teams and senior executive leadership.

• Problem Solving & Decision Making: Strong analytical acumen with proven ability to make pragmatic architectural trade-offs under constraints.

• Delivery Ownership: High accountability for end-to-end software delivery, operational excellence, and production resilience.

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## Job Family Group:

Technology

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## Job Family:

Applications Development

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## Time Type:

Full time

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## Most Relevant Skills

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## Other Relevant Skills

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