Senior Java Backend Architect: API & AI Integration Lead

Trigyn Technologies Limited; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Trigyn Technologies, INC. seeks a Java Programmer in Albany, NY to lead backend development for the UI Job Assist Tool, focusing on secure APIs, MCP services, and integration with the core UI system.

You will design REST endpoints, review vendor APIs, mentor staff, and collaborate with GCP cloud teams to ensure scalable, compliant, and high-performance solutions.

This role requires 96 months backend experience, Java/microservices expertise, and prior work in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 96 months experience in enterprise backend software development and API architecture using Java and microservices, including design and implementation of REST APIs.
• 36 months experience in a technical leadership or architecture role on enterprise systems, including code review, technical standards, and cross-functional/vendor coordination.
• 24 months experience integrating enterprise applications with AI-enabled services or AI platforms, including validation of data exchanged between AI services and systems of record.
• 12 months experience designing, implementing, or validating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, clients, tools, or integrations.
• 24 months experience with GCP cloud-native architectures and services, including one or more of GKE, Pub/Sub, IAM, VPC Service Controls, or secure egress patterns.
• 24 months experience delivering solutions in high-compliance environments such as IRS Publication 1075, CJIS, HIPAA, or comparable regulated environments.
• 24 months experience designing data-integrity, write-back validation, or API security controls for transactional enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Build core REST endpoints, construct and optimize database queries in collaboration with the Data Architect, and implement business-logic validations.
• Design and review Java-based microservices and APIs supporting integration between the core UI system and the AI Job Assist Tool.
• Review, critique, and recommend approval of vendor API specifications, data schemas, and integration designs before ITS development begins.
• Act as a technical liaison among the vendor AI team, business subject-matter experts, and ITS security/infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate on establishing coding standards and branching strategies, and perform critical code reviews for security, performance, and maintainability.
• Design end-to-end integration among REST APIs, the MCP server, and the core UI system of record.
• Collaborate with GCP Cloud Engineering on secure egress proxies, VPC Service Controls, GKE, Pub/Sub, IAM, and related cloud-native architecture.
• Design validation frameworks that prevent corrupt or unapproved AI-generated data from being written back to the UI system.
• Anticipate and mitigate API instability, dependency, and database-change risks, and develop technical workarounds as needed.
• Develop and execute load-testing strategies to support approximately 1,500 concurrent users and document-heavy workloads.
• Support integration of AI capabilities and Model Context Protocol (MCP) services with enterprise Java/microservice solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer and mentoring to State staff.

Skills

Java

API architecture

Microservices

REST API design

Technical leadership

Tools

GCP

GKE

Pub/Sub

IAM

VPC Service Controls

Secure egress patterns

Job description

Trigyn Technologies, INC. seeks a Java Programmer in Albany, NY to lead backend development for the UI Job Assist Tool, focusing on secure APIs, MCP services, and integration with the core UI system.

You will design REST endpoints, review vendor APIs, mentor staff, and collaborate with GCP cloud teams to ensure scalable, compliant, and high-performance solutions.

This role requires 96 months backend experience, Java/microservices expertise, and prior work in regulated environments.