Technical Solution Lead

**About Us**:
At Parkar, we stand at the intersection of innovation and technology, revolutionizing software development with our cutting-edge Low Code Application Platform, Vector.ai. For almost a decade, our expertise has expanded to four countries, offering a full range of software development services, including product management, full-stack engineering, DevOps, test automation, and data analytics.

Vector.ai, our pioneering Low Code Application Platform, redefines software development by integrating over 500 modular code components. It covers UI/UX, front-end and back-end engineering, and analytics for a streamlined, efficient path to digital transformation through standardized software development and AIOps.

Our commitment to innovation has earned the trust of over 100 clients, from large enterprises to small and medium-sized businesses. We proudly serve key sectors like Fintech, Healthcare-Life Sciences, Retail-eCommerce, and Manufacturing, delivering tailored solutions for success and growth.

At Parkar, we don't just develop software; we build partnerships and pave the way for a future where technology empowers businesses to achieve their full potential.

**Role Overview**:
We are looking for a seasoned Technical Solution Lead with 10-15 years of experience in Java/J2EE and Spring Boot, with strong expertise in microservices architecture and proven delivery in the banking domain. The role involves designing, implementing, and leading scalable distributed systems while ensuring performance, security, and compliance with industry standards.

**Responsibilities**
- Broad experience in designing, programming, and implementing large distributed systems with microservices.
- Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability etc.
- Translate functional requirements to design.
- Work with technical SMEs to understand their requirements and ensure these are met.
- Define best practices and standards for the microservice implementation.
- Identify and define implementation patterns.
- Lead activities to build accelerators and tools to increase the quality of deliverables.
- Evaluates industry technologies to shape design of services in consideration of cost, portability, compatibility, or usability factors.
- Identifies and makes appropriate changes to technologies, integrated platforms, and systems to meet customer and operational requirements.
- Continuously seeks to more efficiently manage and utilize technology, platforms, and systems.
- Highlights design risks, provide alternative options, and recommend quality solution to specified problem.
- Able to verify that the user requirements are achievable and support business users during UAT and post-implementation phases.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree and 10-15 years of technical experience within architecture development, integration of backend systems and development.
- Deep knowledge of SOA, Architecture and Design on Micro services, REST Services and Soap Services Development.
- Experience in core java fundamentals, Java 8+, Spring, Springboot, testing framework Junit, Cucumber.
- Strong hands-on with design patterns, clean code.
- Strong hands-on in Java Microservices (Spring boot) Restful APIs and Soap Services.
- Experience in designing and coding scalable Microservices.
- Experience of working in Banking domain projects is mandatory
- Experience with middleware/messaging technologies such as MQ, JMS, Kafka and exposure to event-driven design patterns.
- Experience in Spring Cloud.
- Experience in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Experience in configuring and implementing Azure Open Service Mesh for Pod-to-Pod communication.
- Experience in API Management using Azure API Gateway (APIM).
- Experience in writing deployment pipelines to deploy Java microservices in Kubernetes.
- Strong in creating/ defining Swagger specs for REST APIs, understand REST principles, Guidelines.
- Demonstrated knowledge of OAuth token-based authentication protocol.
- Demonstrated knowledge of PCI and Security Coding Standards.
- Experience with MSSQL, data modelling, query development and performance optimization

**Good to have**
- Experience in migrating TIBCO services to spring boot microservices.