Associate Principal - Architecture

Required Experience Location- Chennai Experience- 12 - 16yrs 12 years of experience in software engineering with 3 years in a backend or enterprise architecture role Proven experience designing and delivering backend solutions in largescale enterprise environments Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with global teams Essential Skills Deep expertise in Java 8 or higher with experience in Spring Framework Spring Boot Spring MVC Spring Data Experience designing and building microservices architectures using Spring Cloud and RESTful APIs Strong understanding of JPAHibernate database integrations eg Postgres MySQL Firestore Hands on experience in implementing cloud native solutions in GCP to address technical and business use cases Proficiency with message brokers and asynchronous processing eg Kafka PubSub Familiarity with containerization and orchestration Docker Kubernetes Serverless Working knowledge of CICD pipelines eg Jenkins GitHub Actions Knowledge of deployment options in cloud platforms like AWS EC2 ECS Lambda GCP or Azure for backend deployment Experience with API documentation tools like SwaggerOpenAPI Experience with caching strategies and frameworks eg Redis Familiarity with DevOps practices monitoring tools eg Prometheus Grafana and observability frameworks SRE concepts Familiarity with unit integration endtoend testing frameworks eg JUnit Mockito Playwright Desired skills Exposure to domaindriven design architectural decision records and solution documentation standards Ability to guide technical teams conduct architecture reviews and mentor developers Familiarity with load balancers API gateways CDNs Experience in retail B2B Industry domain