Job Summary

Location: Pan India

ROLE BAND: E3.2

TECH STACK: .NET

EXPERIENCE TYPE: 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 ResponsibilitiesArchitecture &

- 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.

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

- 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.

Skill RequirementsOther Requirements

📌 Senior Technical Architect (India)
🏢 HCL Technologies
📍 India