Job highlights

- 7-15 years experience with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Apache Kafka, and event-driven architecture
- Lead design and delivery of scalable Java/Spring Boot services, define API contracts, enforce code quality, mentor developers, and coordinate with stakeholders

Role - Technical Lead/Architect - Architecture & Technology Required Technical Skill Set - Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, JPA, Microservices, REST APIs, Maven, Architecture and Design Patterns, Event-Driven Architecture, Apache Kafka, JMS, JOLT, XSLT, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Caching Technologies, Code Quality, Git

Desired Experience Range- 7-15 years

Location of Requirement - Bengaluru/Kochi

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)

Must-Have

1. Strong 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.

Valuable-to-Have Banking or financial-product experience; cloud exposure

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.

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