Java Architect

• 12 + total IT experience with at least 2 years focused as an architect
• Role: Designs end-to-end technical solutions that align business requirements with technology capabilities, serving as the bridge between business stakeholders and development teams while ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures.
• Responsibilities:
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Requirements Synthesis: Facilitate workshops with business, legal, and compliance teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications using tools for collaboration like Confluence & JIRA
• Architecture Design & Documentation: Create solution blueprints from high-level system diagrams to detailed component designs using Lucidchart/Draw.io for architectural views, Enterprise Architect/Visual Paradigm for UML modeling, and maintain architecture decisions in Confluence.
• API Strategy & Integration Design: Define RESTful API contracts using OpenAPI Specification (Swagger), test with Postman, and establish service governance with API Management for rate limiting and monitoring across microservices.
• Security Architecture Implementation: Design security frameworks with OAuth2/JWT using Auth0/Okta, implement encryption with HashiCorp Vault, establish zero-trust designs, and ensure compliance through SonarQube scanning.

Technical Leadership & Governance: Lead and present in architecture review forums, mentor teams on Java Spring Boot microservices, establish and maintain compliance through automated testing and contract testing