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 Thanks and Regards Seemon Mallapally | Senior IT Recruiter seemonm@sarasamerica.com “> seemonm@sarasamerica.com | O: +1-248-919-3854 Ext: 912 ▪ United States ▪ India ▪ Canada ▪ Australia The content of this email is confidential and intended for recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without the written consent of the sender. If Related Tags: c2c jobs .ca{opacity:0.6;} September 16, 2026 September 16, 2026 .co{fill:none;stroke:#000;stroke-width:1.3px;opacity:0.6;} Leave a Comment on Requirement Senior Java Developer – Azure / Event-Driven Architecture – Chicago, IL – Hybrid Local !