Senior App & Solution Architect - Hands-On, Enterprise

Insight Global

Reading (Berks County)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

Insight Global seeks a Senior Application / Solution Architect to shape and rebuild the organization’s application architecture practice. This role leads architecture reviews, develops proofs of concept, and balances business needs with technical best practices at an enterprise scale.

The ideal candidate has deep hands-on Java development, strong architectural judgment, and can influence teams and leadership without ramp-up time.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience as an Architect working with Modern Java Projects (Microservices, APIs, Containerization).
10+ years of IT Java application development (Version 17.0-21.0) using Spring.
Understand containerization with Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Understand Horizontal & Vertical Scaling and its impact on performance.
Excellent communications skills to tailor messaging to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to translate business requirements into practical architecture decisions.
Experience making real work tradeoff decisions (time, cost, resources vs. architectural purity).
Ability to apply architecture patterns.
Hands-on approach to work.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture reviews, develop proofs of concept, and guide enterprise-scale decisions.
Influence teams and leadership without ramp-up time or hand-holding.
Collaborate with application and operations teams to balance business needs, timelines, and technical best practices.