Senior Java Developer Solution Architect - Vice President

Citi • Mississauga, ON

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About The Position

We’re seeking a seasoned Senior Java Developer Solution Architect with 6+ years of experience to lead end-to-end technical design and delivery of mission‑critical systems. You will own architecture decisions, drive engineering excellence, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, security, and platform teams to build scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems.

Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive experience building enterprise systems, with 7+ years in Java and Spring at scale.
• Proven delivery of cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong expertise in: Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
• Strong expertise in: REST/GraphQL APIs
• Strong expertise in: Kafka (or Pulsar), Kubernetes, Docker
• Strong expertise in: RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra/DynamoDB)
• Strong expertise in: Caching (Redis), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins), IaC (Terraform/ARM)
• Strong expertise in: Observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK), feature flags/progressive delivery
• Solid grasp of concurrency, performance tuning, resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads), and fault-tolerance.
• Demonstrated leadership of architectural forums, design reviews, and mentorship.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• gRPC
• Domain knowledge: Payments, banking, capital markets, insurance, e-commerce, supply chain, or telecom.
• Security: Threat modeling, shift-left security, SAST/DAST, secrets rotation, mTLS.
• Data: CDC (Debezium), schema registry, exactly-once semantics, streaming ETL.
• Platform: Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), API gateways (Kong/Apigee), Serverless (Lambda/Functions).
• Modern patterns: CQRS, event sourcing, Saga orchestration, hexagonal architecture.
• Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve system architecture for cloud-native, microservices/event-driven platforms (scalability, resilience, security, cost).
• Create high-level and low-level designs, integration patterns, API contracts, and reference implementations.
• Lead design reviews; ensure alignment with domain-driven design (DDD), 12‑factor principles, and organization standards.
• Lead squads through full SDLC—from discovery and PoCs to production and SRE handoff.
• Establish coding standards, code review practices, and secure-by-default patterns.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers; support career growth and succession of technical leaders.
• Build core services using Java (17+), Spring Boot, REST/GraphQL, and message/event streaming.
• Optimize for performance, concurrency, observability, and operational excellence (SLOs, error budgets).
• Drive quality with unit/integration/contract testing, test data strategy, and automated quality gates.
• Design for AWS/Azure/GCP, container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh, and CI/CD.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns and secrets management.
• Partner with SRE/Platform teams on monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and cost governance.
• Architect integrations across SQL/NoSQL, caching (Redis), and event streams (Kafka/Pulsar).
• Define data contracts, schema evolution strategies, and idempotent/eventual consistency patterns.
• Embed AppSec best practices, OWASP controls, secure API/auth (OAuth2/OIDC), and zero trust patterns.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and audit requirements where applicable.
• Translate business needs into technical roadmaps and architecture runway.
• Communicate trade-offs and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of MCP, A2A, Agentic Architecture

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees