Must-Have**

1. Solid hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, REST APIs and microservices, with the ability to review and guide product development.
2. Proven solution-design capability covering architecture/design patterns, API contracts, scalability, security, resiliency, observability and performance.
3. Strong experience in event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka/JMS, including partitioning, consumer groups, failure handling.
4. Demonstrated technical leadership through estimations, task breakdown, code/design reviews, mentoring, defect resolution, release support and stakeholder communication.

Good-to-Have

Banking or financial-product experience; cloud exposure

Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role

Own the technical design and delivery of scalable Java/Spring Boot services,



APIs and reusable architecture components from an SDLC perspective.

Translate functional and non-functional requirements into solution designs, API contracts, data flows, technical tasks, estimates and implementation plans.

Lead event-driven and integration design, ensuring reliability through retries, error handling, reconciliation and observability.

Enforce engineering quality through design/code reviews, secure-coding practices, performance tuning, and compliance checks.

Mentor developers, remove technical blockers, coordinate with architecture/product/testing/DevOps stakeholders for accomplishing product delivery.

📌 Java Technical Architect (Kochi)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 Kochi