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Senior Java Platform Engineer — Senior Vice President
As part of the Payments Platform and Cheque Processing Transformation Initiative, this role involves leading the engineering of a global check payment platform. You will manage a scrum team to design and build production-grade Java microservices while overseeing architecture reviews and code standards. The core responsibilities include architecting event-driven distributed systems using Kafka, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs, alongside managing data architectures across Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and MongoDB. You will drive the modernization of legacy mainframe components into cloud-native services using OpenShift, AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker. Technical requirements include expertise in JVM performance tuning, CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Gradle, and Maven, and integrating AI tools like GitHub Copilot. The role addresses the critical challenge of ensuring reliability, scalability, and security for high-volume financial transactions within a complex global payment lifecycle.