Microservices Architect

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.