Microservices Architect

Microservices Architect - Remote Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. Job Title: Microservices Architect Location: 100% Remote (U.S.) Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2 Salary Range: $100,000–$180,000 Annually Experience Required: 12+ years Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position. Job Summary: We are seeking a seasoned Microservices Architect to lead the design and evolution of large-scale microservices ecosystems built on modern container platforms and cloud-native technology stacks. The role requires deep expertise in service decomposition, domain-driven design, distributed data management, and runtime concerns such as resilience, observability, and security at scale. The ideal candidate brings hands-on architectural leadership across complex transformations, with a clear point of view on when microservices are the right answer, how to evolve them safely, and how to keep the resulting estate maintainable over the long term. Key Responsibilities 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 da