Technical Architect

VDart Inc; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

VDart Inc. is seeking a hands-on Senior Technical Architect in Boston to design and build an enterprise-grade platform for real-time visibility into transaction lifecycles across multiple systems.

The role emphasizes correlation of events, SLA tracking, and scalable, secure architectures. The candidate will lead architecture decisions, mentor developers, and collaborate with engineering teams, using Elasticsearch/ELK, Java or Python, and cloud deployments on AWS or Azure.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Elasticsearch/ELK stack expertise including mappings and ingest pipelines.
• Experience building high-volume event tracking and transaction lifecycle systems.
• Strong distributed, event-driven microservices architecture skills.
• Hands-on development in Java, Python, or similar.
• Experience with relational/NoSQL databases and API integrations.
• Cloud deployment experience on AWS or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a transaction lifecycle tracking platform from the ground up.
• Architect solutions using the Elastic Stack including data modeling and indexing.
• Develop real-time dashboards for monitoring, exceptions, bottlenecks and SLA management.
• Define APIs, integration patterns and onboarding frameworks for multiple apps.
• Design workflow and exception handling with automated alerts and work-items.
• Ensure scalability, availability, security, and data retention compliance.
• Lead architecture decisions, collaborate with engineering teams, and mentor developers.

Skills

Elasticsearch/ELK Stack

Event-driven microservices

Distributed architecture

Java/Python development

Real-time transaction monitoring

SLA tracking & performance

Tools

Kibana

Elasticsearch

Ingestion pipelines

AWS/Azure

Kafka

MQ

Job description

Job Title: Technical Architect

Location: Boston, MA ( 3 to 4 days in a week from client office).

Role: Senior Technical Architect

Location: Boston (Onsite)

Experience: 12+ Years

Role Overview

Hands-on Senior Technical Architect to design and build a scalable, enterprise-grade platform that provides real-time visibility into transaction lifecycles across multiple upstream and downstream systems. The platform will correlate events, monitor transaction status, workflows, identify bottlenecks, detect failures, manage exceptions, and support SLA tracking at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build a transaction lifecycle tracking platform from the ground up.
• Architect solutions using the Elastic Stack, including data modeling, index design, ingestion pipelines, and large-scale search and analytics.
• Develop real-time dashboards and visualizations for transaction monitoring, exception tracking, bottleneck analysis, and SLA management.
• Define standard APIs, integration patterns, and reusable onboarding frameworks for multiple applications.
• Design workflow and exception-handling capabilities, including automated alerts and work-item creation.
• Ensure scalability, high availability, performance, security, and data retention compliance.
• Lead architecture decisions, collaborate with engineering teams, and mentor developers.

Must-Have Skills

• Deep hands-on expertise with Elasticsearch and ELK Stack, including cluster sizing, performance tuning, mappings, indexing strategies, ingest pipelines, and Kibana.
• Proven experience building high-volume event tracking, transaction monitoring, order tracking, trade lifecycle, or transaction lifecycle management systems.
• Strong architecture skills in distributed, event-driven, microservices-based systems.
• Hands-on development experience using Java, Python, or similar technologies.
• Hands-on experience developing database solutions using relational/NoSQL databases
• Experience integrating APIs, Kafka, MQ, event streams, and heterogeneous source systems.
• Cloud deployment experience on AWS or Azure.