Systems Integration Specialist Advisor

Tech lead:

• This role is responsible for defining and leading the API migration strategy from legacy platforms to Spring Boot–based microservices architectures.
• The candidate will assess current-state APIs, dependencies, and integration flows and design a scalable, secure, and resilient target-state architecture.
• They will establish API standards covering versioning, documentation, error handling, security, and observability.
• The role includes driving API lifecycle management using API gateways and developer portals. The architect will lead modernization initiatives, including refactoring monolithic systems into microservices where appropriate.
• They will ensure backward compatibility and manage API deprecation strategies with minimal business disruption. The position requires defining and implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for efficient API delivery.
• Close collaboration with DevOps, Security, Cloud, and Development teams is essential to ensure alignment and governance.
• The candidate will provide technical leadership, enforce code quality standards, and document architectural decisions and roadmaps.
• They will support performance tuning, scalability planning, and reliability engineering initiatives.
• The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in Java development and enterprise integration, with strong expertise in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RESTful APIs, and OpenAPI standards.
• Hands-on experience with API gateways (Apigee, Azure API Management, etc.), messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, containerization using Docker, and orchestration with Kubernetes is required.
• A solid understanding of security standards including OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and distributed systems principles is essential.
• Experience with cloud platforms, observability tools, event-driven architecture, and CI/CD pipelines is highly desirable. Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Success in this role will be measured by a well-defined API migration roadmap, successful low-downtime migrations, improved scalability, and performance, and reduced technical debt through standardized governance and architecture best practices.
• Strong architectural thinking and system design capabilities, mentoring, and technical coaching abilities. Ability to drive technical decisions and governance, excellent stakeholder communication, and leadership skills.
• Acts as technical authority for API and integration architecture decisions.