Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve core frameworks and reusable platform components.
- Perform hands-on coding for technology upgrades and migrations (Java/Spring/Jakarta/Tomcat and related platform components).
- Own and drive large-scale modernization initiatives across services and shared libraries.
- Build and evaluate POCs to assess new technologies, patterns, and platform capabilities.
- Resolve complex technical issues across frameworks, distributed services, and integration layers.
- Ensure implementation alignment with platform and enterprise architecture.
- Define, review, and enforce coding standards, framework usage policies, and technical guidelines.
- Mentor architects, tech leads, and engineers; guide design and code quality decisions.
- Drive adoption of emerging technologies including AI-assisted development, cloud-native tooling, and observability practices.
- Collaborate with architecture, product, and engineering stakeholders for execution and delivery alignment.

Essential Experience Java & Backend




- Robust Java proficiency across mixed runtimes (legacy and contemporary), with migration ownership toward modern LTS baselines (JDK 11+, preferably JDK 17).
- OOP concepts, SOLID principles, and design patterns.
- Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Security.
- RESTful API design and implementation.
- JPA and Hibernate.

API & Integration
- Solid API governance and specification experience using Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging patterns: Kafka producers/consumers, event contracts, serialization formats (JSON, Avro).
- Strong validation and business-rule enforcement patterns in API and service layers.
- Security and authentication implementation including OAuth2, JWT, and API security best practices.

Data & Schema
- Hands-on No-SQL and relational database experience (PostgreSQL preferred; MongoDB/Cassandra exposure is valuable).
- Strong database schema evolution practices using ver

📌 HOS: Technical Architect — Senior (Thiruvananthapuram)
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