Architect - Java

Job Title - Architect - Java - Associate Manager - Entity ACS Song Management Level: Level 8 - Associate Manager Location: Kochi Must have skills: Java Good to have skills: Agile Project Management Experience: 8-12 years of experience is required Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture) Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Architect – Java with 8–12 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance Java applications. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of object-oriented programming, backend development, and modern software engineering best practices. You will be responsible for writing clean, scalable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and ensure the team ships high quality, scalable, maintainable Java services, guide and mentor engineers to raise the bar.
• Lead architecture and design decisions set patterns and best practices, and balance trade offs for long term scalability and maintainability.
• Design, code, debug, write unit/integration tests and benchmarks, and maintain clear technical documentation.
• Collaborate closely with developers and consultants on implementation; unblock teammates and provide practical guidance during delivery.
• Own complex, ambiguous problems end to end break down work, drive execution, and deliver reliable outcomes.
• Mentor juniors through code reviews, pairing, and structured feedback, foster a culture of learning and craftsmanship.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional partners and contribute to technical planning and estimation.
• Identify risks early and drive continuous improvements across the codebase and delivery processes.
• Maintain high productivity and product quality, be accountable for delivering to agreed scope, standards, and timelines.
• Act as the key trouble-shooter in complex/escalated incidents.
• Be accountable to deliver the task to the agreed standards.
• Adhere to and enforce development standards and architectural guidelines established by the Solution Design team.
• Lead e Commerce platform development end-to-end from commerce and content features to integrations with external systems.
• Troubleshoot, stabilize, and lead root-cause analysis with lasting fixes.

Professional and Technical Skills:

• Design and implement microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC) in Java with clean, testable architecture.
• Write efficient, concurrent code using threads, channels, and the context package; manage timeouts/cancellation.
• Own service quality: unit/integration tests, benchmarks, profiling, and race detection.
• Integrate with PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis caching and messaging Kafka/RabbitMQ.
• Build and ship via Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins); automate deploys and rollbacks.
• Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) with Prometheus/Grafana/Open Telemetry; drive SLOs and incident RCA.
• Ensure security basics: TLS/mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, input validation, dependency hygiene (using Maven/Gradle dependencies).
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
• Experience with Code management tools.
• Hands-on experience with Caching mechanisms.

Additional Information

About Our Company | Accenture

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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