The Lead Associate - Back End Engineer is a hands-on senior engineering role, equivalent in scope and expectations to a UK Senior Engineer. The role is responsible for building high-quality back-end software solutions across Consulting & Technology estate.

The role provides strong squad-level technical contribution across the .NET ecosystem, including C#, ASP.NET Core, clean architecture, APIs, domain modelling, SQL Server, Azure, and automated engineering practices.

Working closely with architects and lead engineers, the role helps translate technical direction into maintainable implementation, supports engineering standards, and raises overall delivery quality through positive engineering practice.

This role is ideal for an experienced back-end engineer who can operate independently, support less experienced developers, contribute to technical design, and deliver robust services in Agile engineering squads.

Key Responsibilities

Back End Design & Development

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Design, develop,



and maintain high-quality .NET applications and services aligned to agreed architecture and squad delivery priorities.

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Implement APIs, domain services, background workers, and integration components using clean architecture principles.

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Write clean, maintainable, secure C# code following SOLID principles, Domain-Driven Design concepts, design patterns, and agreed engineering standards.

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Develop data access layers, persistence strategies, and SQL Server / Entity Framework solutions that support performance, reliability, and maintainability.

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Build containerised and event-driven components where appropriate, supporting scalable and resilient platform capabilities.

Engineering Quality, Testing & DevOps

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Create and maintain automated tests across unit, integration, contract, and service layers, applying TDD where appropriate.

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Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, build quality gates, automated deployment, environment configuration, and release readiness.

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Support observability, resili

📌 Lead Associate (Viman Nagar)
🏢 Davies
📍 Viman Nagar