Director of Technology & Chief Architect

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The role

High 5 Games is hiring a Director of Technology who is first and foremost a hands-on chief architect. You will shape the technical vision and grow into owning the architecture of a cloud platform built on hundreds of Java microservices that process millions of real-time transactions every day.

You will join a mature, high-volume platform that is already running in production. You'll spend your first 90 days learning it deeply, embedded with the teams that built it, and take ownership of its architecture domain by domain: starting with the data and transaction layer, then service architecture and the cloud platform. By the end of your first year, you'll own the platform's architecture end to end and set its direction for the years ahead.

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Design for high-volume, low-latency, real-time transaction processing with strong consistency and idempotency guarantees.
Define patterns for distributed transactions (sagas, outbox, event sourcing where appropriate), retries, and failure recovery.
Lead architecture reviews and keep a living record of decisions (ADRs) across hundreds of services.
Identify and pay down architectural debt; plan the evolution of legacy services without disrupting live traffic.
Java and data platforms
Set Java engineering standards: frameworks, libraries, build tooling, coding practices, and JVM tuning.
Own the database strategy across relational, NoSQL, caching, and streaming platforms, including schema design, partitioning, replication, and capacity.
Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks across the JVM, the network, and the data layer.
Cloud, reliability, and operations
Guide the cloud architecture: containers, Kubernetes, managed data services, networking, and infrastructure as code.
Set SLOs, observability standards (metrics, tracing, logging), and incident response practices.
Drive scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and cloud cost efficiency.
Ensure security, data protection, and auditability meet gaming regulatory and payment requirements.
Leadership
Build, lead, and mentor the engineering and technology teams; raise the bar on hiring.
Translate business goals into a technology roadmap and project plans.
Manage technical vendors and third-party platforms.
Evaluate new technology and tools and bring in what moves the platform forward.
Communicate technology strategy and risk clearly to the CEO, executives, and partners.
Required qualifications
12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years as an architect of large distributed systems.
Expert-level Java (Java 17+), with deep knowledge of Spring Boot / Spring Cloud, concurrency, and JVM performance tuning and garbage collection.
Proven track record designing and operating a microservices estate of 100+ services in production.
Hands-on experience with systems handling millions of real-time transactions per day, with measurable latency and uptime targets.

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