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You will lead architecture, guide engineering teams, establish engineering standards, and drive cloud-native platform development using modern software engineering practices. Working closely with engineering leadership, product management, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders, you will deliver scalable, resilient, secure, and high-performing solutions while mentoring engineers and promoting technical excellence across the organization. ---\nKey\nResponsibilities\nDefine technical architecture and engineering strategy for enterprise applications and platforms.\nLead the design and implementation of highly scalable, cloud-native distributed systems.\nArchitect and develop enterprise microservices and event-driven solutions.\nTranslate complex business requirements into scalable technical architectures.\nDrive modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, platform transformation, and legacy system modernization.\nEstablish engineering standards, architectural guidelines, and software development best practices.\nLead architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical governance activities.\nPartner with product management, enterprise architects, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise solutions.\nDesign secure, resilient, and highly available systems supporting mission-critical business operations.\nLead engineering teams through the complete software development lifecycle.\nMentor technical leads and software engineers through architecture guidance, technical coaching, and design reviews.\nDrive DevSecOps adoption, CI/CD automation, observability, and operational excellence.\nLead production readiness, incident response, root cause analysis, and system stability improvements.\nPromote engineering innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and recommending adoption where appropriate.\nDevelop and maintain architecture documentation, technical standards, API specifications, and operational documentation.\nFoster a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement, quality, and knowledge sharing.\nRequirements Required\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\n10-15+ years of progressive software engineering experience.\nExtensive hands-on experience with Java and enterprise application development.\nDeep expertise in the Spring ecosystem, including: o Spring Boot o Spring Cloud o Spring Security o Spring Batch o Spring Data JPA o Spring Integration\nExtensive experience designing enterprise-scale distributed systems.\nStrong expertise in Microservices Architecture and Event-Driven Architecture.\nProven experience architecting highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-native applications.\nExtensive experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.\nStrong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.\nExperience with messaging technologies including Kafka, Azure Event Hub, Solace, or RabbitMQ.\nStrong expertise with relational and NoSQL databases.\nExperience with distributed caching technologies.\nExpertise in REST API design, API lifecycle management, GraphQL (preferred), OAuth2, JWT, and enterprise integration patterns.\nStrong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and distributed computing.\nExperience implementing CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and automated deployment pipelines.\nStrong understanding of software security, scalability, observability, and production operations.\nExperience leading enterprise-scale engineering initiatives and cross-functional technical teams.\nExperience working in Agile software delivery environments. ---\nPreferred\nQualifications\nExperience with Supply Chain, Logistics, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Transportation, Fulfillment, Order Management, or Retail platforms.\nExperience leading enterprise modernization and digital transformation initiatives.\nExperience with Apache Spark or enterprise-scale data platforms.\nFamiliarity with AI/ML-enabled enterprise solutions.\nExperience implementing enterprise observability platforms.\nExperience leading 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