Lead Java Practice Architect

Description

Think of TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) as the growth solution for enterprises today. We unleash growth through technology, strategy, design, execution and operations with a customer-first mindset for bold business leaders. We deliver cloud, data and customer experience solutions. Our partnerships with leading cloud, design and business intelligence platforms fuel our expertise. We value deep relationships, dedication to serving others and inclusion. We drive positive outcomes for our people and our business, and we stay true to our commitments and act in harmony with our words. We exist to create significant opportunity for people to achieve fulfillment through career success.

Ready to join us?

Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires:

The Lead Architect is a hands on technical leader responsible for defining and delivering end to end solution architecture for complex client and internal initiatives. The role drives technical direction across teams, ensures solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable, and guides delivery teams to build high quality solutions aligned with enterprise modernization goals. Lead Architects stay close to the code and runtime by validating key architectural decisions, contributing where needed on critical paths, establishing engineering guardrails, and leading design reviews. Success is measured by both architectural quality and production outcomes, with the role remaining primarily focused on hands on solution engineering and minimal delivery support. Occasional travel may be required, such as for engagement kickoffs.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end to end solution architecture for a domain or major initiative, including integrations, data flows, and non functional requirements

• Define and govern architecture for large scale, distributed, cross platform systems

• Translate business goals into a pragmatic technical roadmap with product and engineering leadership

• Lead architecture and design reviews; document key decisions, trade offs, and guardrails

• Stay hands on through prototypes, reference implementations, and technical spikes to mitigate risk

• Establish and enforce engineering standards across APIs, testing, CI/CD, and secure by default practices

• Embed operability by design, including observability, resilience, runbooks, and incident readiness

• Serve as a technical escalation point and drive root cause analysis and systemic remediation

• Contribute across the SDLC, including estimation, design, and delivery

• Mentor senior engineers and emerging architects

• Support pre sales with solution architecture and effort estimation

• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and patterns

• Leads and mentors a team of architects, providing architectural oversight across multiple programs to drive consistency, scalability, and adherence to engineering best practices.

Technical Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree /4-year college degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

• 15+ years of software development experience.

• 12+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java.

• 5+ years of experience with AWS

• 5+ years of experience as a Practice Architect, or Lead Architect.

Technical Profile:

Software Engineering

• Expert level software engineering with proven experience designing and governing architectures for distributed systems, including clear boundaries, contracts, versioning, and data ownership

• Strong hands on experience with Java frameworks such as Spring / Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and microservices architectures

• Experience designing and delivering distributed, highly available systems

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging, and integration patterns

• Deep expertise in Java including refactoring mature codebases, performance tuning, and pragmatic framework evaluation

• Ability to define and enforce quality strategies across teams, including test automation, testability standards, and measurable quality outcomes

• Hands on contributor through prototyping, reference implementations, deep code reviews, and critical path development

• Relevant technical certifications (Cloud, Architecture, or Development) are a plus.

Engineering & Tooling

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools

• Advanced DevOps practices including CI/CD strategy, IaC, release safety, environment strategy, and scalable automation

• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Strong understanding of security, identity, compliance, and secure by default practices

• Full stack solution design capability across frontend, backend, integration, and data layers, with depth in at least one area

• Ability to establish architectural patterns that improve maintainability, reduce coupling, and enable independent team delivery.

Cloud Platform Experience

• Strong experience with AWS, including cloud native design patterns, security/identity, networking, deployment scalability, and cost awareness

• Hands on knowledge in various AWS services like ECS, EKS, Lambda, Event Bridge, S3, DynamoDB, System Manager, API Gateway, ACM, Route53, Cloud Watch, etc.

• Ability to define cloud reference architectures and guide tradeoffs across reliability, performance, and delivery speed

• Hands on experience building, operating, and troubleshooting production cloud workloads using observability tools

• Nice to have – Associate/Professional level AWS certification

AI Skills & Tool Usage

• Sets expectations for responsible AI tool usage across teams, including validation, security, and IP/privacy considerations

• Evaluates and enables adoption of AI tools that improve developer productivity and quality (e.g., code generation, testing, documentation)

• When relevant, defines architectural patterns for integrating AI services with appropriate governance and monitoring

Professional Expectations

• Owns technical direction and outcomes for a program or domain, driving clarity and decisions in ambiguous situations

• Influences across teams and stakeholders through strong communication and technical credibility

• Accountable for production outcomes, including reliability, security, and performance

• Acts as a force multiplier through mentoring, coaching, and reusable reference solutions

• Maintains hands on engagement to ensure architectural decisions translate into successful delivery

• Experience working with an Agile methodology and iterative development.

• Experience with practices such as unit testing, static analysis and build automation.

• Experience in mentoring and coaching employees, with excellent leadership skills.

This is a Permanent position based out of Charlotte, NC.

The pay range for this position is $160000.00 - $225000.00/yr.

We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc. Our full-time, internal employment benefits include the following: • Medical, Dental, and Vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents) • Short and Long-Term Disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation Benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 31, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.