Job description

Job Title: Senior Java EIP – Chennai

Location: Guindy, Chennai
Work Hours: 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Employment Type: Full-Time & Contract

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Java EIP Architect with 12+ years of overall experience, and at least 6 to 9 years of hands-on experience specifically in Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP), Apache Camel, and Spring Batch. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in defining and overseeing the technical architecture and solution design for our suite of products and applications, ensuring seamless, scalable, and efficient integration solutions across systems.

As a Senior Java EIP Architect, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, business analysts, and project managers, to create and deliver high-performance integration solutions. Your expertise in enterprise integration strategies, middleware, and modern architectural patterns will be crucial in enabling the successful deployment of integrated systems. This position requires a deep understanding of integration frameworks, enterprise application architectures, and best practices for enterprise-level software solutions.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading the design and implementation of complex integration solutions based on Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP).
• Architecting and optimizing Apache Camel-based integration routes and middleware services to facilitate communication between disparate systems.
• Leveraging Spring Batch for handling large-scale batch processing and job management.
• Defining integration strategies and ensuring they align with both technical and business goals.
• Providing guidance and mentorship to development teams on integration best practices and advanced Java technologies.
• Ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance of integration solutions, particularly in high-volume, mission-critical environments.

This role requires strong problem-solving abilities, excellent communication skills, and a proven track record in designing and delivering complex, high-quality software solutions. The candidate should be passionate about driving innovation in integration architecture and should have experience in working with modern cloud-native environments, microservices, and API management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Architecture: Lead the design and architecture of enterprise applications and integrations, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Ownership: Be the primary owner of all architecture, design, documentation, and delivery processes.
• Integration Management: Take ownership of all integrations, ensuring seamless connectivity between various applications and systems.
• Process Ownership: Oversee the application and product development processes, ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Environment Setup: Manage and maintain all environments (except production), ensuring optimal configurations for development, testing, and UAT.
• Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Release Management: Manage the release and deployment processes to Testing, UAT, and production environments, including versioning and tagging for client-specific code.
• Application Validation: Perform technical validation of applications before release to ensure quality and compliance with requirements.
• Tool Implementation: Suggest and implement tools to improve development processes, focusing on automation and efficiency.
• Automation: Lead initiatives for process automation, including build processes, continuous integration, and testing automation.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience: 6-10 years of experience in solution architecture and design of enterprise applications, with a proven track record in building, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade applications.
• Product Design: Experience in product design and deployment is highly valued.
• Technical Skills:
  • Proficient in Spring Boot, Hibernate, Spring Security, Spring Data, and Spring MVC with at least 5 years of experience.
  • Strong understanding of unit testing, integration testing, and behavior-driven development (BDD) testing.
  • Knowledge of front-end technologies and design elements.
  • Proficient in RDBMS, with exposure to MS SQL Server and Oracle databases.
  • Strong knowledge of OOP concepts in Java and RESTful API architecture.
  • Excellent understanding of application security, scalability, performance aspects, and related solutions.
  • Familiarity with security best practices, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and OWASP guidelines.
  • Experience in performance analysis and application tuning.
• Enterprise Integration: Hands-on experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and various approaches to enterprise application integration.
• Design Patterns: Strong understanding of design patterns and microservices architecture.
• Process Management: Ability to drive the team in coding practices, documentation, reviews, and continuous integration.
• Tools Proficiency: Proficient in using IDEs, version control systems, build and deployment tools, continuous integration, bug tracking/reporting, and configuration management tools.
• Containerization: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes; exposure to NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Mentorship: Strong capability to mentor teams, fostering technical growth and continuous improvement.
• Certifications: Relevant certifications in Java are a plus.