Architect Technical II

IGT; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

IGT in Chennai seeks an accomplished software engineer with 12+ years of experience to lead architecture and deliver enterprise-grade, distributed systems. You will own design choices for high-volume transaction processing, payment integrations, and secure architectures, guiding teams through production deployment.

Ideal candid ate has hands-on Java, Spring, Kubernetes, cloud, and data modelling skills, plus strong documentation and communication abilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership or architecture responsibility.
• Strong expertise in Java and related enterprise technologies.
• Experience designing enterprise, distributed, microservices, event-driven, and integration architectures.
• Proficiency in REST APIs, OpenAPI, API security, and versioning.
• Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, or similar enterprise frameworks.
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka or JMS.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL, and data modelling.
• Familiarity with JBoss, WildFly, or comparable application servers.
• Experience with Git, Gradle/Maven, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation.
• Understanding of Docker/Podman and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of TLS/mTLS, certificates, encryption, secrets management, and IAM.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP architecture concepts.
• Experience with centralized logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring.
• Ability to create UML, sequence, C4, and other architecture diagrams and maintain clear technical documentation.
• Strong hands-on background in enterprise software development.
• Experience designing distributed, highly available systems.
• Demonstrated experience taking solutions from architecture through production deployment.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of high-volume, real-time transaction-processing systems.
• Knowledge of payment transaction lifecycles including authorization, reversal, settlement and reconciliation.
• Experience with ISO 8583 or comparable financial messaging standards.
• Understanding of POS/payment-terminal integrations and external payment processors.
• Knowledge of payment security and cryptography.
• Understanding of HSM integration and cryptographic key-management concepts.
• Familiarity with PCI DSS requirements.
• Experience designing highly available transaction systems where downtime and transaction loss have significant business impact.
• Understanding of idempotency, retries, duplicate transaction handling, store-and-forward, timeout handling and transaction recovery.
• Ability to design systems supporting multiple processors, acquirers, networks or external payment integrations.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture design

Analytical thinking

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Java

Spring / Spring Boot

REST APIs / OpenAPI

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

API security

Git

Gradle / Maven

CI/CD pipelines

Docker / Podman

Kubernetes

AWS / Azure / GCP

Oracle / PostgreSQL / SQL

JBoss / WildFly

Logging / metrics / tracing

Security / encryption / IAM

HSM integration / TLS / certificates

PCI DSS awareness

UML / C4 diagrams

Job description

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 12+ years of software engineering experience**, including significant technical leadership or architecture responsibility.
• Strong expertise in Java and related enterprise technologies
• Experience designing enterprise, distributed, microservices, event-driven, and integration architectures.
• Proficiency in REST APIs, OpenAPI, API security, and versioning.
• Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, or similar enterprise frameworks.
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka or JMS.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL, and data modelling.
• Familiarity with JBoss, WildFly, or comparable application servers.
• Experience with Git, Gradle/Maven, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation.
• Understanding of Docker/Podman and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of TLS/mTLS, certificates, encryption, secrets management, and IAM.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP architecture concepts.
• Experience with centralized logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring.
• Ability to create UML, sequence, C4, and other architecture diagrams and maintain clear technical documentation.
• Strong hands-on background in enterprise software development.
• Experience designing distributed, highly available systems.
• Demonstrated experience taking solutions from architecture through production deployment.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of high-volume, real-time transaction-processing systems.
• Knowledge of payment transaction lifecycles including authorization, reversal, settlement and reconciliation.
• Experience with ISO 8583 or comparable financial messaging standards.
• Understanding of POS/payment-terminal integrations and external payment processors.
• Knowledge of payment security and cryptography.
• Understanding of HSM integration and cryptographic key-management concepts.
• Familiarity with PCI DSS requirements.
• Experience designing highly available transaction systems where downtime and transaction loss have significant business impact.
• Understanding of idempotency, retries, duplicate transaction handling, store-and-forward, timeout handling and transaction recovery.
• Ability to design systems supporting multiple processors, acquirers, networks or external payment integrations.