Senior Technical Lead / Architect - .NET / Full Stack Developer – 7B

Purpose: Recruit and assess a hands-on .NET engineer for the HIG India POD model, with emphasis on secure API/backend delivery, cloud readiness, AI-assisted engineering, ownership, and business-aligned execution.

Location

Hyderabad, India

Employment type

Full-time

Experience level

10-14 years preferred; strong candidates with lower tenure may be considered if they demonstrate excellent fundamentals, learnability, and analytical problem solving.

Role family

Software Engineering - Application Development

Operating model

HIG India POD / Agile delivery team with strong collaboration across US and India

Core expectation

Strong .NET/C# engineering with SQL, API development, cloud awareness and Angular willingness to learn Python and playwright automation.

Position Overview The Employee Benefits IT team is seeking a motivated Software Engineer to join the HIG India POD model supporting digital, claims, and benefits capabilities. This role will work closely with US-based technology leads and business partners to deliver secure, scalable and production-ready services.

The ideal candidate has strong backend engineering fundamentals in .NET/C#, is comfortable working with APIs, data, automation and cloud services, and demonstrates leadership within a scrum team, and the judgment to connect engineering choices to claimant, employer, operations and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

- Own design, development, unit/integration testing, implementation, and support for assigned components within enterprise Employee Benefits applications.
- Design and maintain .NET Framework and .NET Core / .NET 8 services, APIs, backend components, and batch jobs.




- Translate business and technical requirements into secure, maintainable application modules and APIs.
- Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate coding, test generation, documentation, analysis, and refactoring while validating quality, security, and compliance.
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, estimation, feature/story refinement, demos, retrospectives, and production readiness discussions.
- Collaborate with product owners, scrum masters, architects, QA/SDET, UX, platform, DevOps, and business partners to deliver outcomes, not just code.
- Partner with Java/API, Angular/UI, and QA/SDET engineers when the same business capability spans BFF, domain APIs, UI, integrations, and batch platforms.
- Perform peer code reviews and contribute to engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, accessibility, observability, and performance.
- Troubleshoot production/non-production issues using logs, monitoring dashboards, traces, database analysis, and structured root-cause thinking.
- Support modernization and reverse-engineering of legacy .NET assets, using analysis, tests, documentation, and AI-assisted tools to reduce SME dependency.
- Document technical decisions, implementation notes, runbooks, operational impacts, and knowledge-transfer artifacts for the POD.

Required Skills & Experience





- 10+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in enterprise application environments. Managed END to END implementation
- Hands-on C# and .NET development experience; .NET Framework and .NET Core / .NET 8 proficiency.
- Strong SQL skills with Oracle experience; ability to analyze data issues and support query-level troubleshooting.
- Experience building or consuming REST APIs and integrating with enterprise systems.
- Experience with Agile delivery and sprint-based planning/execution.
- Drive end to end delivery for the applications by having cross team collaborations and partnering with business partners.
- Working knowledge of Git/GitHub workflows, pull requests, branch management, and peer code reviews.
- Understanding of unit/integration testing and DevSecOps practices.
- Cloud fundamentals, with AWS exposure strongly preferred.
- Ability to use AI-assisted development tools and review AI-generated output responsibly.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

- Python experience for scripting, batch, data processing or automation.
- Angular exposure and ability to support full-stack delivery when needed.
- Experience with AWS ECS, Lambda, Batch, CloudWatch, SQS, or similar services.
- Observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch, or equivalent.
- Experience supporting production applications and participating in incident/problem resolution.
- Insurance, employee benefits, claims, leave, billing domain experience.

What We Offer

- Collaborative work environment with global teams.
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
- Continuous learning and career development opportunities.

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