What are the responsibilities and job description for the Azure Technical Architect position at Barnes & Noble?
Expenses are covered for F2F interview.
Act as the technical expert and implementation specialist, partnering with the architect to design and build scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise applications. The role is deeply hands-on, with a strong focus on Java-based microservices, Azure API Gateway integrations, hybrid connectivity, and secure cloud adoption.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop core application services using Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs.
- Collaborate with the architect to define service boundaries, API contracts, and data models.
- Implement and manage Azure API Gateway integrations, including policies for authentication, throttling, and observability.
- Develop secure, token-based integrations using OAuth 2.0 / OIDC and Azure Key Vault.
- Build and optimize microservices and event-driven components for transactional and data-intensive workloads.
- Integrate with Azure services such as Event Hub, Cosmos DB, and Functions to enable hybrid architectures.
- Contribute to data pipelines and messaging frameworks supporting analytics and telemetry.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, ensuring performance and reliability.
- Implement observability best practices — structured logging, metrics, and tracing across services.
- Participate in architecture reviews and bring forward practical, forward-looking technology solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10–12 years of experience in enterprise application development, with deep hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and distributed systems.
- Strong working knowledge of Azure API Management (API Gateway) — including policy design, security configuration, and gateway-service integrations.
- Experience with Azure cloud components such as App Services, Functions, Cosmos DB, Event Hub, and Key Vault.
- Solid understanding of hybrid integration patterns, including secure on-prem ↔ cloud connectivity.
- Proven ability to implement API security, identity, and encryption best practices.
- Familiarity with data pipelines, asynchronous messaging (Kafka/Event Hub), and observability tooling.
- Exposure to AI/ML or analytics workflows is a plus.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills; able to design and code at production level.
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $65.00 - $70.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
Salary : $65 - $70
