Material+ - Technical Architect - Java/J2EE

Description :

Key Responsibilities :

Core Java & Backend Architecture (50%) :

- Serve as the primary Java technical authority across multiple applications.

- Debug, analyze, and refactor large and complex Java codebases.

- Define and maintain scalable microservices architecture patterns.

- Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, performance optimization, and reliability.

- Guide teams on effective API design, integration strategies, and backend system robustness.

Frontend & React Ecosystem (30%) :

- Review and provide architectural inputs for ReactJS and React Native applications.

- Ensure frontend code quality, modularity, and alignment with UI/UX standards.

- Support teams in debugging, performance troubleshooting, and optimizing client-side applications.

AWS & Cloud Engineering (20%) :

- Provide architectural guidance on AWS services including ECS, IAM, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS/PostgreSQL, CloudFormation/Terraform, etc.

- Oversee and optimize DevOps pipelines (CI/CD), containerization, deployments, and automation.

- Support and enhance ETL/data integration processes using AWS Glue.

- Offer direction on Python-based components or scripts used within data or automation workflows.

Additional Responsibilities :

- Conduct technical design reviews, code reviews, and contribute to architectural decision records.

- Mentor development teams, raising the bar on engineering maturity, design clarity, and coding discipline.

- Troubleshoot cross-platform issues involving backend, frontend, cloud, and data layers.

- Translate business requirements into clean, scalable technical solutions.

- Ensure systems are built for observability, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.

Required Skills & Experience :

- 12+ years of software development experience, with at least 7+ years in Java.

- Strong understanding of Java frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, etc.

- Proven experience architecting complex distributed systems or microservices.

- Solid understanding of ReactJS / React Native fundamentals and ecosystem tooling.

- Hands-on experience with AWS, especially compute (ECS, Lambda), data (RDS/PostgreSQL), security, networking, and DevOps pipelines.

- Familiarity with AWS Glue or equivalent ETL/data integration tools.

- Good working knowledge of Python ( scripting, automation, simple ETL tasks ).

- Expertise in debugging, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning across the stack.

- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, CodePipeline, etc.).

- Strong understanding of design patterns, clean code principles, and system architecture best practices.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience modernizing legacy applications to microservices or cloud-native architectures.

- Familiarity with container orchestration and fault-tolerant design. Background in engineering leadership, architecture councils, or technical governance initiatives.

Good-to-Have Skills :

- Knowledge of Python or JavaScript.

- Understanding of frontend technologies.

- Experience mentoring or guiding team members.