Technical Architect

Role overview

Technical Architect at HCLTech

Technical Design & Delivery

".NET LEAD Detailed

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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [India]