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. Skill Requirements Other Requirements