Technical Architect - Java & Microservices

About the role

Talan, an international consulting group in innovation and business transformation through technology, is looking for a Technical Architect in Córdoba. The role is the technical point of reference, turning business goals into robust, evolvable, secure and operable architectures. It leads end-to-end technical architecture design, sets technical and non-functional criteria, supports the team during implementation and ensures deliverables meet the quality, performance, resilience and security needs of a critical enterprise platform.

Key responsibilities

• Define the end-to-end technical architecture, including components, integrations, data flows, dependencies and boundaries of responsibility.
• Make and document architectural decisions using ADRs, evaluating alternatives, trade-offs, evolution costs, risks and operational consequences.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into designs, technical acceptance criteria and an evolution roadmap.
• Design scalable, resilient distributed solutions covering consistency, concurrency, idempotency, fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
• Participate in developing critical components and run code reviews focused on design, maintainability, security and operational behaviour.
• Define the testing and quality strategy (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, resilience, security).
• Review APIs, integration contracts, persistence schemas and compatibility mechanisms; evaluate performance and capacity through profiling, load testing and measurable latency and throughput targets.
• Ensure automation of builds, validations, static analysis, deployments and quality controls in CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, secrets management, access control and traceability.
• Identify technical risks, structural debt and bottlenecks, prioritise their remediation and communicate their impact on timeline, cost and scope.
• Take part in planning complex deliveries, technical estimations, milestones and tracking of architectural commitments.

Required profile

• More than 4 years as a Technical Architect, with proven experience leading the design and delivery of complex platforms or projects.
• At least 5 years in software development and in Java, Spring Boot, APIs, persistence, distributed systems, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Experience in regulated or financial environments with high availability, performance, security and traceability requirements.
• Experience in architecture reviews, standards, technical debt management and evolving existing systems.
• Agile experience and cross-functional collaboration with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure and Business teams.
• B2 English (mandatory); Spanish at professional level, minimum B2 (mandatory).

Required skills

• Advanced Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x and microservices architecture.
• REST API design, versioning, backward compatibility and integration governance.
• Spring Data JPA, PostgreSQL, Gradle or Maven.
• JUnit 5, Mockito, AssertJ, contract, integration and performance testing.
• Git, CI/CD, observability (logs, metrics, traces, alerting) and code reviews.
• Nice to have: Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, OAuth2/OpenID Connect, SRE, SLO/SLI, trade finance domain knowledge.

What we offer

• Full-time or B2B contract.
• Remote work within CET time zone.
• Membership of a multicultural team working on international projects.