Happiest Minds Technologies - Senior Java Architect

: Role : Senior Java Architect Location : Bangalore Experience : 14 to 18 Yrs Lead the architecture, design, development, and deployment of enterprise-scale solutions aligned with business and customer requirements. Key Responsibilities : - Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems with expertise in microservices architecture, event-driven systems, load balancing, database design, security, and high-availability solutions. - Strong hands-on expertise in Java , Microservices , Node.js , C# , RESTful APIs , Git , Jenkins/Azure DevOps , and modern backend application development. - Extensive experience with SQL and NoSQL databases; exposure to Elasticsearch is an added advantage. - Strong understanding of application scalability, performance optimization, caching strategies, resilience, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. - Experience creating architecture deliverables including High-Level Design (HLD) , Low-Level Design (LLD) , integration architecture, and technical standards. - Define and implement architecture principles, reusable design patterns, engineering best practices, and governance frameworks. - Design secure, scalable, and reliable data processing and application platforms while ensuring data quality, validation, transformation, and lifecycle management. - Drive non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, reliability, observability, and operational excellence. - Establish standards for logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, error handling, retry mechanisms, and production support. - Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, DevOps, and security teams to drive technology selection, proof-of-concepts, implementation reviews, CI/CD automation, and secure design practices. - Mentor engineering teams, particularly in MEAN stack development, promoting Agile delivery, coding standards, and software engineering best practices. - Demonstrated expertise in software engineering practices with a strong focus on code quality, automated testing, maintainability, and balancing delivery speed with technical excellence. - Excellent analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to manage technical roadmaps, risks, and architectural dependencies. - Exposure to 3D application development/implementations will be an added advantage. Deal Breaker Skill : Architecting an application. Mandatory Skills : - Microservices - Java - Node.js - Jenkins - C# - Restful APIs - Azure Devops - SQL - NoSQL - HLD - LLD - System Architecture