Microservices Architect

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Microservices Architect - Remote Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. Job Title: Microservices Architect Location: 100% Remote (U.S.) Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2 Salary Range: $100,000–$180,000 Annually Experience Required: 12+ years Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position. Job Summary: We are seeking a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern container platforms and cloud-native technology stacks. The role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns such as resilience, observability, and security at scale. The ideal candidate brings hands-on architectural leadership across complex transformations, with a clear point of view on when microservices are the right answer, how to evolve them safely, and how to keep the resulting estate maintainable over the long term. Key Responsibilities • Define microservices architecture standards, service boundaries, and decomposition strategies aligned with domain-driven design principles. • Lead the modernization of legacy monoliths into well-bounded, independently deployable services with clear ownership. • Design service communication patterns leveraging REST, gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and event streaming as appropriate. • Establish API contracts, schema governance, and versioning strategies that enable safe evolution of services over time. • Architect resilient distributed systems incorporating circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and graceful degradation patterns. • Define data ownership models, transactional boundaries, and patterns such as outbox, saga, and CQRS where appropriate. • Lead the design of platform capabilities including service mesh, API gateway, identity propagation, and shared observability. • Drive performance engineering, capacity planning, and scalability analysis across critical service domains. • Establish CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards optimized for high-frequency, low-risk service releases. • Define observability standards including structured logging, distributed tracing, and SLO-driven monitoring. • Collaborate with security teams to ensure zero-trust principles, secrets management, and runtime protection are embedded. • Mentor engineers and tech leads on microservices best practices and anti-pattern avoidance. • Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance on service design proposals across multiple teams. • Continuously evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies for adoption based on maturity and strategic fit. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. • 12 or more years of software engineering experience, with several years in architecture roles. • Deep expertise in microservices design, domain-driven design, and distributed systems patterns. • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies. • Proficiency in at least one major backend language such as Java, Go, or C#. • Strong understanding of API design, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging. • Experience operating high-traffic, latency-sensitive systems in production. • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services across at least one major provider. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. • Demonstrated ability to lead architecture initiatives spanning multiple teams. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with platform engineering and internal developer platform construction. • Familiarity with Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, or comparable service mesh technologies. • Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization at scale. • Public speaking, open-source contributions, or published technical writing. • Experience in regulated industries with strict compliance requirements. How to Apply Would you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to venkat.r@bvteck.com or contact us at (908) 505-3899. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com. Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.