VP of AI-Driven Java Full-Stack Engineering

Archer; Florida; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in collaboration with BNY, seeks a Vice President, Full-Stack Java/AI Engineer for Lake Mary, Florida. You will lead Java/Spring Boot microservices, drive AI integration, and champion DevSecOps practices across the team.

You will mentor PODs, design scalable architectures, champion secure, observable systems, and partner with product and security to translate business goals into technical roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 5-9 years of hands-on software engineering experience delivering Java/Spring/Spring Boot systems in production.
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework, Microservices architecture, and Restful APIs.
• Experience in AI Code Assist Technologies (CoPilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, etc.).
• Strong understanding of AI agent architecture, prompt engineering, and DevOps best practices.
• Proficient in automating CI/CD pipelines on large container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Batch Monitoring & Job scheduling tools like Airflow, Autosys & Control-M.
• Proficient in scripting and SQL, stored procedures and transaction management.
• Demonstrated integration of AI capabilities into production workflows with responsible-use controls.
• Strong RDBMS expertise (Oracle preferred) and data-access performance tuning at scale.
• Practical DevOps/CI/CD automation enabling rapid, reliable releases (aspirational one-week Idea to Production).

Responsibilities

• Lead 2-3 member PODs as hands-on technical lead: design, coding standards, reviews, and performance tuning for Java/Spring Boot microservices.
• Translate product objectives into technical plans, acceptance criteria, and architectural guardrails.
• Integrate AI capabilities into application workflows with guardrails, auditability, and latency budgets.
• Design data access patterns (Oracle preferred) with schema modeling, queries, and tuning.
• Champion DevSecOps and accelerated delivery with CI/CD pipelines and automated tests.
• Establish integration standards (REST/GraphQL, Kafka, OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS) and resilience patterns.
• Drive SRE practices: define SLIs/SLOs, instrument services, and lead incident response.
• Mentor engineers across PODs, elevate code quality, and improve documentation.
• Collaborate with product, platform, security, data/AI, and infra teams to map business goals to technical roadmaps.

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

Microservices

AI integration

DevSecOps

CI/CD automation

Docker

Kubernetes

Oracle

RDBMS

OAuth2/OIDC

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Autosys

Control-M

Oracle

Job description

Archer, in collaboration with BNY, seeks a Vice President, Full-Stack Java/AI Engineer for Lake Mary, Florida. You will lead Java/Spring Boot microservices, drive AI integration, and champion DevSecOps practices across the team.

You will mentor PODs, design scalable architectures, champion secure, observable systems, and partner with product and security to translate business goals into technical roadmaps.