| Skill Category | Comments |
| Core Knowledge (Java Core Concepts, Spring Core principles) | Technology depth in JAVA/J2EE, OOPS, Spring IoC, Spring Modules |
| Database programming (Schema design, SQL, PL/SQL, NoSQL, Mongo DB ) | Knowledge on DBMS space including modern distributed databases. |
| Understanding of various Design patterns,Principles and architecture Concepts/Experience, Knowledge of modern Architecture principles | Architecture principles, Core Design patterns , Enterprise Integration patterns,Messaging patterns, Architecture design patterns, Microservices Patterns, Kubernetes, Containerization, docker |
| Non-functional aspects understanding and experience. | Security, Reliability, scalability, maintainability, optimization, performance, etc. How do we measure and tunings, understanding of Oauth and other security standards. |
| Frameworks experiences (Both UI & Back end) and Services (REST API, Microservices, messaging middleware pub/sub etc). | React/Redux, Spring Boot, Angular, JSRs, Hibernate, JPA, Kafka, Apache Camel etc. Messaging concepts(pub /sub) implementation experience. |
| Cloud eco system and containerization experience (IaaS/ PaaS / SaaS) - AWS/Azure/GCP/Openshift/Docker/Kubernetes | access candidates experiences in using cloud componenets (kubernetes, containers, etc). Key services like storage, networking, application, devOps and messaging |
| Practical Application / experience as a Solution Architect (SA), Innovation and Adaptability | practical experience and ability to apply methodologies in real-world scenarios, types of projects involved, risk identification & management, etc |
| | access the candidate's ability to innovate and adapt Architectural practices to modern development methodologies. |
| Understanding of Agile Manifesto and DevSecOps/ Build Management tools | CI/CT/CD, Git, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, JIRA etc |
| Hands-on coding & Communication experience | check if the candidate does coding on a regular basis (not as a everyday developer, but working complex code, PoCs, creating reusable technical components, etc) |
| | check candidate's ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders and team members. Design Artifacts creation/ Presentation/Writing skills |