Senior Manager, App Dev & Support

Job Track Description:

Experience Level:

15+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in technical leadership or solution architecture roles.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a hands-on Technical Architect / Lead with deep expertise in Spring Boot microservices and Azure Event Hub or similar cloud streaming architectures. The ideal candidate will design, develop, and deliver scalable, event-driven solutions on Azure or similar clouds (AWS). This role requires strong technical problem-solving skills, Team & architecture ownership, and the ability to guide teams through the full development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture and Design

• Architect and design microservices-based solutions using Spring Boot
• Build event-driven and streaming architectures using Azure Event Hub, Kafka, or similar platforms.
• Define integration patterns between producers and consumers, manage offsets, partitions, and checkpoints effectively.
• Design and implement secure RESTful APIs and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Architect cloud-native solutions leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, App Services, and related cloud components.
• Develop reference architectures, reusable components, and best practice frameworks for microservices and event streaming.

Hands-on Development and Technical Leadership

• Lead by example through hands-on coding, code reviews, and POC development.
• Collaborate with development teams to translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Ensure high code quality, proper design patterns, and best practices are followed across teams.
• Work closely with DevOps teams to build automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Conduct technical evaluations, architecture reviews, and participate in solution governance forums.

Leadership and Delivery

• Lead and mentor engineering teams through design, development, and deployment phases.
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, Support teams.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to developers.
• Conduct architecture reviews, POCs, and solution governance activities.

Performance, Reliability, and Optimization

• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of systems using Azure-native patterns.
• Optimize Event Hub throughput, partitioning, and consumer performance.
• Implement and maintain observability through monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Grafana, Azure Monitor, Application Insights.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production performance issues across distributed services.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, and RESTful API development.
• 3+ yrs. of proven expertise in Azure Event Hub, Kafka, or other event streaming platforms.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, and event sourcing.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS).
• Working knowledge of Azure services: Key Vault, Application Insights, Azure Functions, App Services.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and system design skills.
• Strong collaboration skills across DevOps, Security, and Product teams.