Bengaluru, Karnataka
Job Summary

ROLE

BAND

TECH STACK

EXPERIENCE

TYPE

.Net Architect

E3.2

.NET

13+ Years

Full-time

Role Purpose

Provide end-to-end technical leadership for enterprise solutions on the .NET platform: translating business and non-functional requirements into scalable, secure and resilient architectures, and guiding engineering teams through implementation, modernization and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

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.

Key Responsibilities

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#, contemporary .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.

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