Lead Java Practice Architect; AWS

Position: Lead Java Practice Architect(AWS)
Description

Think of TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) as the growth solution for enterprises today. We unleash growth through technology, strategy, design, execution and operations with a customer-first mindset for bold business leaders. We deliver cloud, data and customer experience solutions. Our partnerships with leading cloud, design and business intelligence platforms fuel our expertise. We value deep relationships, dedication to serving others and inclusion.

We drive positive outcomes for our people and our business, and we stay true to our commitments and act in harmony with our words. We exist to create significant opportunity for people to achieve fulfillment through career success.

Ready to join us?

Here's what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires:

The Lead Architect is a hands on technical leader responsible for defining and delivering end to end solution architecture for complex client and internal initiatives. The role drives technical direction across teams, ensures solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable, and guides delivery teams to build high quality solutions aligned with enterprise modernization goals. Lead Architects stay close to the code and runtime by validating key architectural decisions, contributing where needed on critical paths, establishing engineering guardrails, and leading design reviews.

Success is measured by both architectural quality and production outcomes, with the role remaining primarily focused on hands on solution engineering and minimal delivery support. Occasional travel may be required, such as for engagement kickoffs.

Key Responsibilities

- Own end to end solution architecture for a domain or major initiative, including integrations, data flows, and non functional requirements

- Define and govern architecture for large scale, distributed, cross platform systems

- Translate business goals into a pragmatic technical roadmap with product and engineering leadership

- Lead architecture and design reviews; document key decisions, trade offs, and guardrails

- Stay hands on through prototypes, reference implementations, and technical spikes to mitigate risk

- Establish and enforce engineering standards across APIs, testing, CI/CD, and secure by default practices

- Embed operability by design, including observability, resilience, runbooks, and incident readiness

- Serve as a technical escalation point and drive root cause analysis and systemic remediation

- Contribute across the SDLC, including estimation, design, and delivery

- Mentor senior engineers and emerging architects

- Support pre sales with solution architecture and effort estimation

- Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and patterns

- Leads and mentors a team of architects, providing architectural oversight across multiple programs to drive consistency, scalability, and adherence to engineering best practices.

Technical

Skills and Experience:

- Bachelor's degree /4-year college degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

- 15+ years of software development experience.

- 12+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java.

- 5+ years of experience with AWS

- 5+ years of experience as a Practice Architect, or Lead Architect.

Technical Profile

Software Engineering

- Expert level software engineering with proven experience designing and governing architectures for distributed systems, including clear boundaries, contracts, versioning, and data ownership

- Strong hands on experience with Java frameworks such as Spring / Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and microservices architectures

- Experience designing and delivering distributed, highly available systems

- Experience with relational and No

SQL databases, messaging, and integration patterns

- Deep expertise in Java including refactoring mature codebases, performance tuning, and pragmatic framework evaluation

- Ability to define and enforce quality strategies across teams, including test automation, testability standards, and measurable quality outcomes

- Hands on contributor through prototyping, reference implementations, deep code reviews, and critical path development

- Relevant technical certifications (Cloud, Architecture, or Development) are a plus.

Engineering & Tooling

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, or similar tools

- Advanced Dev Ops practices including CI/CD strategy, IaC, release safety, environment strategy, and scalable automation

- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Strong understanding of security, identity, compliance, and secure by default practices

- Full stack solution design capability across frontend, backend, integration, and data layers, with depth in at least one area

- Ability to establish architectural patterns that improve maintainability, reduce coupling, and enable independent team delivery.

Cloud Platform Experience

- Strong experience with AWS, including cloud native design patterns, security/identity, networking, deployment…