Microservices Architect

Requirements

• Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design principles.
• Lead the modernization of legacy monoliths into well-bounded, independently deployable services with clear ownership.
• Design service communication patterns leveraging REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming as appropriate.
• Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning strategies that enable safe evolution of services over time.
• Architect resilient distributed systems incorporating circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation patterns.
• Define data ownership models, transactional boundaries, and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS where appropriate.
• Lead the design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and shared observability.
• Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across critical service domains.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards optimized for high-frequency, low-risk service releases.
• Define observability standards including structured logging, distributed tracing, and SLO-driven monitoring.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure zero-trust principles, secrets management, and runtime protection are embedded.
• Mentor engineers and tech leads on microservices best practices and anti-pattern avoidance.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on service design proposals across multiple teams.
• Continuously evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies for adoption based on maturity and strategic fit.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.