Senior MTS Architect

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About the Role

We are seeking a Sr. MTS Software Architect to lead the architectural vision and technical strategy for eBay's Risk Engineering organization. This is a pivotal role where you will drive scalable, intelligent, and cost-efficient systems that protect our marketplace and users from evolving risks. Your work will lay the foundation for AI-powered innovation, framework modernization, and architectural consistency across risk detection and mitigation platforms.

What will you accomplish?

Architectural Leadership : Own and evolve the architecture for risk engineering systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and in alignment with enterprise standards.

System Design : Eliminate duplication across systems and ensure clear responsibility boundaries; align systems with business needs and future scalability.

Engineering Excellence : Champion clean architecture, promote use of modern frameworks, enforce quality gates, and ensure adherence to design patterns and coding standards.=

Lead by Example : Write reference implementations, contribute to core libraries, and conduct in-depth code reviews to influence standards and uplift team capabilities.

Cost Optimization : Propose and drive engineering solutions that reduce operational overhead, improve resource efficiency, and automate manual processes.

Technical Vision : Set the long-term technical direction for the risk engineering domain, align with enterprise architecture strategies, and ensure teams are building toward a common vision.

Framework Development : Identify opportunities to build reusable components, services, and frameworks that accelerate feature delivery across the organization.

Modernization : Lead migrations of legacy systems into modern architectures and cloud-native paradigms with minimal disruption and high impact.

Collaboration : Drive complex technical discussions, build consensus across engineering, product, and operational teams, and ensure smooth delivery of cross-functional projects.

Documentation & Governance : Create well-structured Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and contribute to technical documentation and standards.

Mentorship : Act as a technical mentor, guiding senior and junior engineers on architecture best practices and advanced problem-solving.

Introduce AI-first frameworks and reusable components that reduce developer friction and enable faster iteration.

Automate diagnostics, monitoring, and remediation using intelligent assistants and prediction-based alerting.

Shape the next generation of risk systems that are autonomous, scalable, and continuously learning.

Excellent in interpersonal communicatomn

What will you bring

Proven experience (12+ years) in software engineering with significant experience (5+ years) in architecture roles in large-scale, distributed systems.

Strong hands-on experience with :

Languages / Frameworks : Java / Kotlin, JEE, Spring, Spring Boot, Node.js,

React.js, Material design, Python,

Messaging & Streaming : Kafka, messaging paradigms (pub-sub, queues)

Databases : RDBMS (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra), distributed cache

Containers & Orchestration : Docker, Kubernetes

Big Data & Stream Processing : Hadop,Apache Flink, Apache Spark

Expertise in building platforms for feature store, Nrt aggregation, online / offline data parity.

Deep understanding of architectural patterns (microservices, event-driven systems, domain-driven design, CQRS).

Experience in driving architecture transformations and migrations.

Exceptional communication, presentation, and consensus-building skills.

Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and technical teams.

Expert in resolving performance bottlenecks.

Nice to Have

Experience in risk or fraud engineering systems.

Strong understanding about cloud-native architectures.

Experience working in large-scale eCommerce or financial transaction systems.

Open source code committer

Education : Bachelors or Masters in Computer science or equivalent

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