Senior Technical Architect

ROLE 

BAND 

TECH STACK 

EXPERIENCE 

TYPE 

.Net Architect 

E3.2 

.NET 

13+ Years 

Full-time 

Architecture & Design 

•  Own high-level and detailed architecture for complex .NET applications, APIs, integrations and modernization initiatives. 

•  Convert functional and non-functional requirements into blueprints, component designs, interface contracts and implementation guidance. 

•  Select appropriate architecture patterns and assess trade-offs across scalability, performance, security, cost and maintainability. 

•  Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, approved platforms, reusable patterns and target-state roadmaps. 

Technical Leadership & Governance 

•  Give hands-on architectural direction to development, QA, DevOps, security and support teams. 

•  Set coding, API, integration, logging, configuration, testing and deployment standards. 

•  Run architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, technical risk assessments and PoC evaluations. 

Security, Reliability & Performance 

•  Embed secure-by-design across identity, authorization, secrets, data protection and interface security. 

•  Define resiliency patterns — retry, timeout, failover, HA and DR — plus performance and capacity targets. 

•  Ensure observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerting. 

Stakeholder Engagement 

•  Facilitate technical discovery with business, product, security, infrastructure and vendor stakeholders. 

•  Communicate complex decisions clearly to engineering and leadership audiences. 

•  Maintain architecture artifacts, decision records, risk logs and technical roadmaps. 

•  Build and evolve .NET services, Web APIs and background workers with clean separation of concerns. 

•  Apply modern .NET features, configuration, logging and dependency injection consistently across the codebase. 

•  Modernize legacy .NET Framework components towards modern .NET, containers and cloud-ready hosting. 

Core Skills 

C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, Web API, dependency injection, async/concurrency, performance tuning. 

Design & Architecture 

Enterprise application architecture, SOLID, design patterns, DDD, microservices, event-driven design, API management. 

Data & Integration 

Relational data design, Entity Framework, transactions, consistency, caching; REST APIs, messaging, event streaming. 

Platform & DevOps 

Azure or equivalent cloud, containers and orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, automated quality gates, secure supply chain. 

Quality & Operations 

Unit, integration, performance and resiliency testing; production readiness, monitoring, RCA. 

Experience & Qualifications 

•  13+ years in software engineering, with strong enterprise .NET design and delivery experience. 

•  Proven track record as solution, application or technical architect on complex programmes. 

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience. 

•  Relevant platform, cloud, architecture or DevOps certifications advantageous, not mandatory. 

Leadership & Behavioural 

•  Architecture ownership with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset. 

•  Structured problem solving and sound judgement under ambiguity. 

•  Clear communication and influence across technical and business stakeholders. 

•  Coaching mindset and strong stakeholder management. 

Location-Specific Expectations 

•  Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones. 

•  Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads. 

•  Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness reviews. 

Key Deliverables & Success Measures 

•  Approved, traceable, implementation-ready architecture and design artifacts. 

•  Documented decisions, standards, risks, assumptions and mitigations. 

•  Solutions meeting agreed security, performance, reliability and operational readiness. 

•  Reduced technical risk via early validation, reusable patterns and automation. 

•  Timely resolution of blockers; improved engineering consistency and code quality.