Technical Architect

Job Summary

".NET LEAD Detailed Job Description    Location Pan India ROLE    BAND    TECH STACK    EXPERIENCE    TYPE .Net Lead    E2.2    .NET    10+ Years    Full-time Role Purpose Lead the design, development and delivery of .NET solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production. Key Responsibilities Technical Design & Delivery •  Own detailed design for .NET components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture. •  Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria. •  Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team. •  Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations. Team Leadership •  Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach. •  Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing. •  Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the .NET skill set.    Quality & Operations •  Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team. •  Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps. •  Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds. Collaboration & Governance •  Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle. •  Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management. •  Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team. Technology Focus — .NET •  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. Required Technical Competencies 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 •  10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong .NET expertise. •  Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles. •  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience. •  Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory. Leadership & Behavioural •  Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes. •  Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions. •  Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. •  Coaching mindset and collaborative working style.    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 •  Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads. •  High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines. •  Stable releases with low defect leakage 

Key Responsibilities

Required Technical Competencies
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
•  10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong .NET expertise.
•  Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles.
•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.
•  Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory.

 

Leadership & Behavioural
•  Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes.
•  Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions.
•  Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
•  Coaching mindset and collaborative working style.  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
•  Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads.
•  High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines.
•  Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover.
•  Improved team capability, engineering consistency and reusable assets.
•  Timely escalation and resolution of technical risks and blockers.

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