Architect

Client Name : Photon

End Client Name : Telecom Client

Job Title : Architect

Location : Onsite Chicago Dallas or New York

Work Type : Onsite

Job Type : Contract

Rate : $75 / hour on w2

LinkedIn needed

Notes :

• Requires a minimum of 13 years of overall professional experience.

The Role

Digital API team is looking for a hands-on Architect with deep expertise to design and deliver domain-driven microservices for customer-facing digital experiences. You ll own greenfield builds from zero-to-production lead engineers by example (coding 70% of the time) and drive cross-team triage while keeping leadership proactively informed.

What You ll Do

Design & build domain-driven event-aware microservices in (Express / Fastify / NestJS) with clean testable code.

Architect greenfield systems : service boundaries data models REST APIs event streams CI / CD observability and runtime topology.

Set API standards : versioning OpenAPI / Swagger pagination error contracts resiliency patterns (timeouts retries circuit breakers).

Own production readiness : SLOs dashboards alerting runbooks; lead incident triage / bridge calls and drive blameless RCAs.

Collaborate across teams (web mobile data security ops) to unblock work sequence dependencies and land integrated releases.

Communicate proactively with leadership : crisp status risk / mitigation dependencies and measurable outcomes.

Raise the bar : code reviews engineering best practices mentoring pair programming tech talks and documentation.

Think two steps ahead : anticipate edge cases scaling operability and cost; recommend pragmatic sequencing and trade-offs.

Tech Stack You ll Work With

Languages / Frameworks : TypeScript Express / Fastify / NestJS

APIs : REST OpenAPI / Swagger OAuth2 / OIDC JWT

Data : PostgreSQL / MySQL NoSQL (MongoDB / DynamoDB) Redis cache

Messaging / Streaming : Kafka / RabbitMQ (sagas outbox idempotency)

Cloud & Platform : One major cloud (AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform) Docker Kubernetes API Gateway / Ingress IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation)

CI / CD & Observability : GitHub Actions / Jenkins ELK / Dynatrace feature flags OpenTelemetry Datadog / New Relic / Prometheus log aggregation

What You ll Bring

8 years backend engineering (or equivalent impact) 3 years technical leadership on product teams.

Key Skills

APIs,Pegasystems,Spring,SOAP,.NET,Hybris,Solution Architecture,Service-Oriented Architecture,Adobe Experience Manager,J2EE,Java,Oracle

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1