Senior Java Architect & Tech Lead – Cloud Solutions

NBMBAA; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment up to 2 days/–

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend

Generous PTO and Parental leave

401k Employer Match

Health benefits

Job summary

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a Lead Associate Principal to shape architecture for scalable, hybrid-cloud risk management platforms. You will mentor teams, drive SDLC compliance, and partner with business and product owners to advance a data-driven enterprise.

This role requires 8+ years of experience, Java 8+, distributed systems, and cloud tooling. You will lead design reviews, implement high-performance solutions, and coach engineers across cross-functional teams in an

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Experience with Java 8+ and OO design, advanced patterns, and multi-threading.
• Experience with distributed message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kinesis).
• Cloud technologies and migrations; AWS services like VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM.

Responsibilities

• Participate in requirement analysis and reviews; validate model assumptions.
• Design highly performant, scalable, secure, cost-optimized solutions.
• Develop next-gen clearing applications within an Agile framework.
• Write unit/integration tests and follow SDLC procedures.
• Perform code reviews and risk analysis; ensure quality standards.
• Assist Production Support with system functionality and fixes.
• Mentor developers and collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Java 8+

Distributed systems

Cloud & AWS

DevOps tooling

SQL/NoSQL databases

Kubernetes

MapReduce/Spark

Unit testing

Education

BS in Computer Science

Masters preferred

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Kinesis

Spark

Flink

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Job description

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is seeking a Lead Associate Principal to shape architecture for scalable, hybrid-cloud risk management platforms. You will mentor teams, drive SDLC compliance, and partner with business and product owners to advance a data-driven enterprise.

This role requires 8+ years of experience, Java 8+, distributed systems, and cloud tooling. You will lead design reviews, implement high-performance solutions, and coach engineers across cross-functional teams in an