Service-Oriented Architect

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:** Service-Oriented Architect **Location:** 100% Remote (U.S.) **Position Type:** Full-time, Direct W2 **Salary Range:** $100,000–$150,000 Annually **Experience Required:** 6+ 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. - Eight 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 platfor…