Job Summary .NET LEAD

Detailed

Location: Pan India

ROLE BAND: E2.2

TECH STACK: .NET

EXPERIENCE TYPE: Full-time

EXPERIENCE: 10 Years

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 ResponsibilitiesTechnical 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 CompetenciesCore Skills





- C#, up-to-date .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 RequirementsOther Requirements

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