AC Manila - Java Spring Boot Kafka Developer Senior Associate

Job Summary

In this role, you will focus on enterprise integration engineering—designing and delivering secure, scalable, production-grade integrations that enable reliable data flow and communication across business-critical systems. You will work hands-on with modern integration approaches including microservices, event-driven architecture, messaging, and APIs, while also leading delivery across project teams and stakeholders.

Job Description

Focused on relationships, you build meaningful client connections and lead technical delivery through influence, clarity, and strong engineering judgment. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, asking the right questions, and translating complex integration needs into secure, maintainable solutions. You balance hands-on technical contribution with project leadership, governance, and collaboration—ensuring quality delivery and operational stability in enterprise environments.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to diverse perspectives, needs, and working styles across business and IT stakeholders.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex integration problems into actionable designs and delivery plans.
• Apply enterprise integration patterns and recognize anti-patterns to improve reliability and maintainability.
• Understand project objectives and how integration work aligns to broader platform and business strategy.
• Communicate architecture decisions, delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly.
• Uphold professional and technical standards, including security, compliance, and operational best practices.
  
  

The Opportunity

As an Integration Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping integration strategy and leading end-to-end delivery of enterprise integrations. You will be expected to bring deep hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka, and apply strong integration architecture skills across event-driven systems, APIs, and messaging platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement integration architecture aligned to business objectives and enterprise technology roadmaps.
• Establish and maintain integration standards, patterns, guidelines, and best practices to drive consistency and quality.
• Manage end-to-end integration delivery across discovery, design, build, test, deployment, release, and operations.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and contribute directly to solution design/build when required.
• Design and implement event-driven solutions using messaging and streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka (required), Azure Service Bus, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Apply deep knowledge of enterprise integration patterns/anti-patterns, event-driven architecture, and REST / SOA / Serverless / EDA patterns.
• Ensure integrations meet non-functional requirements including scalability, resilience, observability, performance, and maintainability.
• Drive secure integration design and implementation, including any of the following: OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, IAM, secrets management, encryption, PII handling, and compliance/regulatory considerations as applicable.
• Oversee CI/CD-aligned delivery practices and code quality, leveraging tools such as Git/SCM and SonarQube.
• Support production reliability through monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis (RCA).
• Produce and maintain documentation including architecture diagrams, interface contracts, data-flow mappings, and technical specifications.
  
  

What You Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree
• 4 to 8 years of experience in integration engineering/architecture with ownership of enterprise production delivery.
• Hands-on experience installing and configuring integration platforms/environments.
• Proven experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise, production-grade solutions end-to-end (including ongoing operations and management).
• Strong hands-on development experience in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka. - with certification especially for Java (nice-to-have)
• Experience with message brokers/event streaming platforms (e.g., ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus).
• Strong experience with microservices and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, GCP, or Oracle).
• Strong experience with CI/CD practices and tooling such as Git/SCM, SonarQube, Azure DevOps, Github Actions, Jenkins, GitLabs CI, GitOps.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and production operational mindset (monitoring, performance tuning, RCA).
• Demonstrated ability to lead project delivery and coordinate project teams (technical leadership, planning, governance).
• Work model: Hybrid (consulting engagement).
  
  

What Sets You Apart

• Experience with iPaaS platforms, ESB/middleware, and API management tools
• Certifications such as TOGAF, Azure, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent.
• Strong track record improving integration reliability through observability, hardening, and standardization.
• Ability to translate integration complexity into pragmatic, secure, and operable designs that teams can maintain.
• Familiarity with AWS Services
  
  

Company Overview

PwC AC Manilas Consulting Services are designed to provide industry expertise and innovative solutions through Cloud & Digital services. Our goal is to assist businesses in driving growth, optimizing operations, and seizing opportunities. With our team of professionals, cutting-edge technology, and deep industry knowledge, we help businesses stay ahead of the competition, deliver strategic solutions, and unlock long-term value.

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