Senior Java Backend Architect for AI-Driven Integrations

Voyatek; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 74,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Schedules

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Medical, Limited, & Dependent FSA

HSA with Employer Contributions

Company-Paid Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) with Company Match

Job summary

Voyatek is seeking an Expert Programmer (JAVA) to join our Albany, NY team. The role focuses on backend development, API architecture, and secure integrations with the core UI system and an AI-enabled Job Assist Tool.

You will lead technical work, review vendor APIs, and ensure data integrity and performance across enterprise-scale services. The position requires leadership in Java-based microservices, REST APIs, and experience with GCP cloud-native architectures.

Qualifications

• 84+ months of experience guiding large teams and/or top-tier expertise.
• 36 months in technical leadership or architecture on enterprise systems.
• 24 months integrating enterprise applications with AI-enabled services.
• 12 months designing or validating MCP servers/clients.
• 24 months experience with GCP cloud-native architectures.
• 24 months experience in regulated environments (IRS 1075, CJIS, HIPAA).
• 24 months experience in data-integrity, write-back validation, or API security controls.

Responsibilities

• Build core REST endpoints, construct and optimize database queries 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 approve vendor API specifications, data schemas, and integration designs before ITS development begins.
• Act as a technical liaison among the vendor AI team, NYSDOL business SME, and ITS security/infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate on 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

Technical leadership

API architecture

Java backend development

Security & data integrity

Tools

Java

GCP

REST APIs

Job description

Voyatek is seeking an Expert Programmer (JAVA) to join our Albany, NY team. The role focuses on backend development, API architecture, and secure integrations with the core UI system and an AI-enabled Job Assist Tool.

You will lead technical work, review vendor APIs, and ensure data integrity and performance across enterprise-scale services. The position requires leadership in Java-based microservices, REST APIs, and experience with GCP cloud-native architectures.