Architect

TransUnion's Job Applicant Privacy Notice What We'll Bring: We are looking for a highly experienced and visionary Java Full Stack Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technology strategy for enterprise-scale applications. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Java-based microservices architecture, modern front-end technologies such as Vue.js, cloud-native development, and scalable distributed systems. The Architect will be responsible for defining technical roadmaps, driving architectural decisions, ensuring scalability and security, and providing hands-on leadership across full-stack engineering initiatives. This role requires strong collaboration with engineering teams, business stakeholders, DevOps, and enterprise architects to deliver high-performance, reliable, and future-ready solutions. What You'll Bring: Key Responsibilities - Define and drive enterprise-wide application architecture and technology strategies. - Design scalable, resilient, secure, and high-performance microservices-based solutions using Java and Spring Boot. - Architect modern front-end solutions using Vue.js and related frameworks. - Lead end-to-end system architecture including application layers, integrations, APIs, security, scalability, and deployment models. - Establish architecture standards, coding guidelines, design patterns, and engineering best practices. - Evaluate and recommend modern technologies, frameworks, open-source tools, and cloud solutions. - Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable technical solutions. - Drive cloud-native architecture adoption and DevOps transformation initiatives. - Provide architectural oversight for CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence. - Ensure system reliability, availability, performance optimization, and high concurrency handling. - Lead technical governance including architecture reviews, security compliance, framework upgrades, and modernization initiatives. - Mentor engineering teams, conduct technical reviews, and provide guidance on complex technical challenges. - Support production systems with root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. - Work closely with Agile teams to enable successful delivery of enterprise-scale programs. - Build monitoring and operational dashboards using tools like Splunk and observability platforms. Required Skills & Qualifications - 12+ years of experience in enterprise application development and architecture. - Strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot ecosystem. - Proven experience in designing and implementing microservices and distributed systems architecture. - Strong hands-on experience with Vue.js and modern front-end architecture principles. - Deep understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, enterprise integration patterns, and scalable system architecture. - Experience with API design, API gateways, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems. - Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP). - Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, and automation. - Experience with Linux environments and performance tuning. - Strong database design, data modeling, and optimization experience across relational and NoSQL databases. - Expertise with engineering and DevOps tools including Git, Jenkins, Harness, Maven, SonarQube, Artifactory, Confluence, and related ecosystems. - Experience handling security implementations, authentication/authorization mechanisms, and enterprise compliance standards. - Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities. - Excellent communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and mentoring skills. Impact You'll Make: Good to Have - Experience with Big Data technologies such as Apache Spark and distributed processing systems. - Knowledge of event streaming platforms like Kafka. - Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus. - Cloud certifications in GCP, AWS. - Exposure to AI/ML integration architectures and modern digital transformation initiatives. - Awareness of emerging trends in cloud-native development, DevOps, platform engineering, and open-source ecosystems. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week. TransUnion Job Title Architect, Solution Architecture