Principal Architect - Microservices Architecture

Job Title : Principal Architect (Java + AWS + AI).

Experience : 12 to 17 years.

Location : Chennai.

Notice Period : Only immediate joiners.

Core Technical Depth :

• 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.

• Expert level Java experience with large scale microservices platforms.

• Proven success designing and operating high throughput, low latency systems.

• Advanced knowledge of :

• Distributed systems.

• Concurrency, performance tuning, and JVM internals.

• Fault tolerance, resiliency patterns, and graceful degradation.

Cloud & Platform Engineering :

• Extensive production experience with Kubernetes (EKS) at scale.

• Deep expertise in AWS networking, security, and scaling patterns.

• Experience designing cloud native, services based or event driven platforms.

• Strong operational mindset (observability, incident response, reliability).

AI & Modern Engineering Practices :

• Hands-on experience applying Generative AI / Agentic AI in real engineering workflows.

• Active usage of GitHub Copilot or equivalent AI tooling.

• Experience integrating AI into developer platforms or SDLC automation (preferred).

Technical Leadership :

• Recognized ability to influence architecture across teams and platforms.

• Experience serving as a go-to expert for the most complex technical problems.

• Strong communication skillsable to clearly articulate trade-offs to engineers and leadership alike.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience in payments, fintech, or large scale transaction processing systems.

• gRPC, async messaging, or streaming platforms (Kafka, etc.).

• Strong observability and SRE aligned practices.

• Proven track record modernizing legacy systems to cloud native architectures.