Senior Java Developer – Azure / Event-Driven Architecture
Location: Chicago, IL – Hybrid
Local Candidates Only
Client: Northern Trust
Experience: 13+ Years
Rate: $60–$65/hr C2C, depending on experience
Cloud: Microsoft Azure ONLY – NO AWS
Role: Senior Java Developer
Open to: Candidates with LinkedIn profiles matching their resume
Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred
Must-Have Skills
- 8+ years of hands-on Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, and Microservices
- Strong experience developing cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure
- Deep expertise in Event-Driven Architecture, distributed systems, and asynchronous processing
- Extensive hands-on Apache Kafka experience:
- Producers, Consumers, Topics, Partitions & Consumer Groups
- Kafka Streams & event processing
- Schema Registry & event versioning
- Message ordering, delivery guarantees & scaling
- Enterprise messaging experience with Kafka, Solace PubSub+, IBM MQ, Azure Service Bus, and Event Hubs
- Strong knowledge of EDA, Pub/Sub, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Saga, DLQ, event replay and recovery
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency messaging systems
- Strong REST, SOAP, and event-based integration experience
- API security: OAuth 2.0, JWT, secure service-to-service communication
Azure
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Event Hubs
- Azure Functions
- Azure Storage
- Azure networking and cloud-native architecture
DevOps / Infrastructure
- GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform
- CI/CD, automated testing, security scanning and deployment automation
- Azure infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
Databases
- Azure SQL
- Cosmos DB
- PostgreSQL or other Azure-hosted databases
- Distributed data consistency and transactional patterns
Additional Backend Skills
- Python
- Node.js
Nice to Have
- Confluent Platform
- Solace Event Mesh
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- GraphQL
- Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics
- Linux / Shell scripting
- TDD / BDD
- Control-M, SFTP and Mainframe integration
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable event-driven microservices and messaging solutions
- Build and support enterprise applications using Kafka, Solace, IBM MQ and Azure messaging services
- Design event schemas, topics, queues and integration patterns
- Ensure security, scalability, resiliency, performance and observability
- Develop unit, integration and performance tests
- Collaborate with architects and technical leads
- Support production deployments and troubleshoot application/messaging issues
- Document architecture, event flows, message contracts and operational procedures
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