Solution Architect (Java & Angular) with Banking / Credit Cards exp

Role: Solution Architect (Java & Angular) with Banking / Credit Cards exp Location/s: Pittsburgh, PA (1st preference) / Dallas, TX / Columbus, OH / Strongsville, OH / Charlotte, NC / Phoenix, AZ (3 days a week in office) Job Type: Contract Experience Required: 10+ Years Description The candidate should be able to go beyond high-level architecture discussions and clearly explain design decisions, trade-offs, failure scenarios, and real-world production considerations.

Key Screening Focus Java + Spring Boot + Microservices + Angular + Banking/Credit Cards + Distributed Systems + Kubernetes + Resilience + System Design.

Role Overview We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to design scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise applications for the banking industry.

Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Angular, and modern cloud-native architecture is required.

Must-Have Skills

• Java / Spring Boot / Microservices Advanced
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong expertise in Microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
• Ability to explain service boundaries, communication, consistency, and failure handling.
• Banking Domain Intermediate
• Banking experience is required.
• Credit Card, payment processing, or card lifecycle experience is strongly preferred.
• Angular / Solution Architecture Advanced
• Strong Angular experience.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, application integration, and distributed systems.

Architecture & Technical Depth Critical Candidates must demonstrate strong practical knowledge of:

• Microservices & Distributed Systems
• Saga Pattern Choreography, Orchestration, and compensating transactions
• Resilience & Fault Tolerance Circuit Breaker, retries, timeouts, backoff, and cascading failure prevention
• Kubernetes Deployments, Services, health probes, resource management, autoscaling, and troubleshooting
• Service Mesh Traffic management, mTLS, observability, retries, and circuit breaking
• CI/CD Automated testing, deployment strategies, rollback, security scanning, and release management
• System Design Scalability, resilience, architectural trade-offs, and failure scenarios