Director of Technology & Chief Architect

Jobgether SRL; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote in United States

Executive tech leadership

Paid time off

Job summary

Jobgether SRL seeks a Director of Technology & Chief Architect in the United States to shape the architecture of a high-volume Java microservices platform and lead engineering teams. You will own production systems, establish standards, and translate business needs into a clear technology roadmap while guiding long-term platform evolution.

You will drive architectural decisions, optimize performance, security, and reliability, and collaborate with executives to align technology with strategic

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering, incl. 5+ years as an architect of large systems.
• Expert Java experience with Java 17, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud.
• Experience operating production environments with many microservices.
• Strong DB skills across PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle and NoSQL.
• Proven ability to lead architecture reviews and establish standards.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture of a large-scale microservices platform and APIs.
• Design high-volume, low-latency systems with strong consistency and auditability.
• Define patterns for distributed transactions and saga/outbox approaches.
• Lead architecture reviews and maintain decision records.
• Identify debt and modernize legacy services with minimal downtime.
• Establish Java standards across frameworks, tooling, and JVM tuning.
• Own data-platform strategy including relational, NoSQL, and caching.
• Guide cloud architecture with containers, Kubernetes, and IaC.
• Set SLOs, observability, incident response, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure security, data protection, and regulatory alignment.
• Build, coach, and grow engineering teams; influence hiring standards.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Architecture leadership

Mentoring

Strategy

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Oracle

NoSQL

Redis

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

WebFlux

Netty

Vert.x

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director of Technology & Chief Architect based in United States.

This is a hands-on technology leadership role focused on shaping the architecture of a mature, high-volume cloud platform built around hundreds of Java microservices. You'll take ownership of a production environment processing millions of real-time transactions each day, where performance, reliability, consistency, security, and auditability are critical. The role combines deep systems architecture with engineering leadership, allowing you to design systems, review code and schemas, establish technical standards, and guide long-term platform evolution. You'll progressively take ownership across data, transaction processing, service architecture, and cloud infrastructure. Beyond technical execution, you'll translate business priorities into a clear technology roadmap and communicate complex trade-offs to executives and stakeholders. This opportunity is suited to an experienced architect who wants meaningful ownership of a large-scale platform and its technical direction.

Accountabilities:

• Own the architecture of a large-scale microservices platform, progressively taking responsibility for service boundaries, APIs, data ownership, and inter-service communication.
• Design high-volume, low-latency transaction systems with strong consistency, idempotency, resilience, and auditability requirements.
• Define architectural patterns for distributed transactions, including sagas, outbox patterns, event sourcing where appropriate, retries, and failure recovery.
• Lead architecture reviews, maintain architecture decision records, and establish consistent engineering standards across a large services ecosystem.
• Identify architectural debt and develop modernization strategies for legacy services without disrupting live production traffic.
• Establish Java engineering standards covering frameworks, libraries, build tooling, coding practices, JVM performance, and garbage collection.
• Own database and data-platform strategy across relational, NoSQL, caching, and streaming technologies, including schema design, partitioning, replication, and capacity planning.
• Guide cloud architecture across containers, Kubernetes, managed data services, networking, and infrastructure as code.
• Establish SLOs, observability standards, incident response practices, and approaches to scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and cloud cost efficiency.
• Ensure security, data protection, and auditability align with applicable regulatory and payment-related requirements.
• Build, lead, mentor, and grow engineering and technology teams while raising standards for technical hiring and development.
• Translate business objectives into technology roadmaps and project plans, manage technical vendors and third-party platforms, and evaluate technologies that can improve the platform.
• Communicate technology strategy, architectural risks, trade-offs, and priorities clearly to executives, business partners, and technical teams.

Requirements:

• 12 years of software engineering experience, including 5 years as an architect of large-scale distributed systems.
• Expert-level Java experience, including Java 17 , Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, concurrency, JVM performance tuning, and garbage collection.
• Proven experience designing and operating production environments with 100 microservices.
• Experience building or operating systems processing millions of real-time transactions per day against defined latency and availability targets.
• Deep database expertise with relational platforms such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle, including query tuning, indexing, sharding, and replication, combined with experience in NoSQL and caching technologies such as Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or Redis.
• Strong experience with event-driven architecture and Kafka or comparable streaming platforms.
• Production experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Deep understanding of distributed-systems principles, including consistency models, idempotency, partitioning, backpressure, and failure modes.
• Experience designing REST and gRPC APIs, API gateways, and service mesh architectures.
• Strong observability and reliability experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog, along with SLO and incident management practices.
• Proven ability to lead and develop engineering teams, evaluate technical candidates, and establish strong engineering practices.
• Excellent communication skills with executives, peers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience in gaming, iGaming, sweepstakes/social casino, sports betting, fintech, or payments is a plus.
• Experience with wallet, ledger, or payment systems requiring reliable transaction reconciliation is desirable.
• Familiarity with gaming regulations, PCI DSS, SOC 2, or similar compliance frameworks is beneficial.
• Experience modernizing monolithic or legacy systems into microservices with minimal or no downtime is a plus.
• Knowledge of reactive or non-blocking Java technologies such as WebFlux, Vert.x, or Netty is beneficial.
• Experience with large-scale cloud cost optimization and FinOps is desirable.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits:

• Base salary is negotiable and determined based on experience and skills.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan, including any applicable employer match.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Additional employee benefit and support programs.
• Fully remote position based in the United States.
• Opportunity to shape the architecture and long-term technology strategy of a high-volume cloud platform.
• Significant hands-on ownership combined with executive-level technology leadership.
• Collaborative, multidisciplinary environment with opportunities for technical and professional growth.