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The Java Microservices Development Lead - Vice President will lead the engineering of mission-critical, distributed backend systems for real-time global payments processing. You will architect and build high-throughput, low-latency Java microservices, ensuring 99.999% availability and zero data loss. Key responsibilities include developing event-driven streaming architectures, implementing ISO 20022 messaging standards, and optimizing data persistence across distributed SQL and in-memory caching solutions. You will utilize Java 17/21, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Apache Kafka while institutionalizing AI-PDLC practices using GitHub Copilot and Devin. Technical requirements include expertise in Virtual Threads, JVM tuning, and container orchestration via Docker and Kubernetes or OpenShift. You will also establish observability standards using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana to maintain robust, production-ready financial service-to-service communication.