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 recent 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 contemporary 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

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