Principal Java & GCP Solution Architect
HTC Global Services, Inc.
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Job summary
HTC Global Services is seeking a Principal Java and GCP Solution Architect in the Detroit area. The role requires hands-on design of Java microservices, cloud-native strategy on GCP, and leadership across engineering teams and stakeholders.
You will guide architecture reviews, define reference patterns, and drive governance while staying close to implementation and delivery outcomes. Hybrid work with onsite collaboration is preferred.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience delivering enterprise Java applications.
- Deep Java 11+ and Spring Boot expertise.
- Proven microservices and distributed systems architecture experience.
- Strong GCP cloud-native design and deployment experience.
- Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes knowledge.
- Experience with RESTful APIs and API-first patterns.
- Experience with messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and event-driven architectures.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and implementation of Java-based microservices on cloud-native platforms.
- Translate business requirements into architectural blueprints aligned with standards.
- Provide technical thought leadership across client engagements.
- Assess landscapes and recommend modernization, migration, and optimization strategies.
- Define and govern API, data, deployment, and operational architectures.
- Establish CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC practices using Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform.
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Job description
Location: MI - Detroit () | Employment Type: Full Time - 40 hours per week | Job Level: T6 | Work Preference: Hybrid | Job Code: 244247
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of modern Java-based applications using cloud-native and microservices patterns.
- Translate business requirements into practical architectural blueprints aligned with enterprise standards and long-term strategy.
- Provide technical thought leadership across ongoing and future client engagements.
- Assess existing application landscapes and recommend modernization, migration, and optimization strategies.
- Design secure, scalable, resilient, observable, and high-performing distributed systems.
- Define application, integration, API, data, deployment, and operational architecture.
- Establish API-first strategies using REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and event-driven patterns.
- Design asynchronous and event-driven solutions using technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Guide engineering teams in the use of Java 11+, Spring Boot, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native design patterns.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical assessments, proofs of concept, and technology evaluations.
- Establish reusable architecture standards, reference patterns, engineering guidelines, and technical governance.
- Collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, QA teams, security teams, product leaders, and business stakeholders.
- Provide technical guidance throughout design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Guide containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, preferably Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Define CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, Git, and Terraform.
- Design observability frameworks covering logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, and production diagnostics.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and determine where they can provide practical business and engineering value.
- Mentor senior developers, technical leads, and architects.
- Present architecture recommendations, trade-offs, risks, and decisions to senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, architectural gaps, and remediation strategies.
- Ensure architectural decisions support maintainability, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise Java applications.
- Deep expertise in Java 11 or later and Spring Boot.
- Proven experience architecting microservices and distributed systems.
- Strong production-level architecture experience with Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience designing and deploying applications using GCP cloud-native services.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine or comparable enterprise Kubernetes platforms.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and API-first architecture.
- Experience with one or more additional integration patterns or technologies:
- GraphQL
- gRPC
- Event-driven architecture
- Asynchronous messaging
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or comparable messaging technologies.
- Strong knowledge of scalability, resilience, fault tolerance, performance, security, and observability.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including distributed-system data modeling.
- Experience with MongoDB, Cassandra, or comparable NoSQL platforms.
- Knowledge of API gateways and service-mesh technologies.
- Experience with Istio, Linkerd, or comparable service-mesh platforms.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps toolchains.
- Working knowledge of Jenkins, GitOps, ArgoCD, Terraform, or comparable tools.
- Strong experience designing logging, monitoring, metrics, and distributed-tracing solutions.
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK Stack
- Dynatrace
- Jaeger
- Zipkin
- Proven architecture-governance and technical-leadership experience.
- Strong client-facing communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts, options, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy and guide teams without relying solely on formal authority.
- Experience leading complex cloud-modernization or monolith-to-microservices programs.
- Experience supporting multiple enterprise or client engagements.
- Consulting or systems-integration experience.
- GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification.
- Experience establishing enterprise architecture standards or cloud-native reference architectures.
- Experience designing highly available, high-volume, or mission-critical platforms.
- Experience conducting architecture assessments and technology-selection initiatives.
- Experience mentoring architects and senior engineers.
- Public speaking, technical writing, internal technology leadership, or architecture-community participation.
The ideal candidate is more than a senior Java developer who has moved into architecture. You have personally owned architecture decisions for complex enterprise platforms and can explain how those decisions improved business, delivery, reliability, or operational outcomes.
You remain technically close enough to implementation to guide developers, review designs, evaluate code-level implications, troubleshoot difficult issues, and challenge assumptions. At the same time, you are comfortable presenting to senior client stakeholders and influencing long-term technology strategy.
You know how to introduce modern technologies thoughtfully. You evaluate business value, operational complexity, risk, scalability, and long-term maintainability rather than adopting tools simply because they are new.
Success in this role includes:
- Building credibility as a trusted technical advisor
- Improving the quality and consistency of architectural decisions
- Establishing reusable Java and GCP architecture patterns
- Helping teams deliver scalable and reliable cloud-native solutions
- Identifying architecture risks before they become delivery or production issues
- Strengthening engineering practices across client engagements
- Contributing technical expertise that expands and deepens client relationships
What Makes HTC A Great Place To Build Your Future
HTC Global Services wants you to join our team. Come build new things with us and advance your career. At HTC Global, you'll collaborate with experts, work alongside clients, and be part of high-performing teams driving success together. You'll have long-term opportunities to grow your career and develop skills in the latest emerging technologies.
At HTC Global Services, our employees have access to a comprehensive benefits package. Benefits can include Group Health (Medical, Dental, and Vision), Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, 401(k) matching, Group Life and Disability insurance, Professional Development opportunities, Wellness programs, and a variety of other perks.
Our success as a company is built on inclusion and diversity. HTC Global Services is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment, where every employee is treated with dignity and respect. We celebrate differences and believe that diverse cultures, perspectives, and skills drive innovation and success. HTC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a proud National Minority Supplier. We seek to empower each individual, fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, included, and respected.
At HTC Global Services, our culture is an embodiment of who we are – a value-led organizationcommitted to success of our people and customers.
- Hybrid and Workplace flexibility
- Work-Life-Balance
- Well-defined career development plan
- Rewards & Recognition program
- L&D focuses on upskilling
- Hands-on experience on Emerging Technologies and Digital Transformation
- Career Mobility programs
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