About the role

You will lead the team taking over a large rights and licensing rules engine that has been inproduction for many years. It is written in Visual C on Windows Server, with heavybusiness logic in SQL Server. You will shadow the client's current technical lead, then ownthe architecture, code quality and release decisions for the system.

Responsibilities

- Lead knowledge transfer from the client's engineers and turn it into architecturedocuments, runbooks and code walkthroughs.
- Own technical design, code reviews and production releases for the rules engine.
- Lead a pod of 3 senior C developers and 1 Rails developer.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues, including performance problems in SQLServer.
- Plan the modernisation of legacy components (including MS Access dependencies)without disrupting live operations.
- Act as the main technical contact for the client's engineering leadership in the US andCyprus.

Must have





- 12 years in software development, with at least 7 years in C on Windows (VisualC / MSVC).
- Deep SQL Server experience: complex stored procedures, query tuning, executionplans, indexing. SQL Server 2016/2017 preferred.
- Has led a team that took over and maintained a large existing codebase built by otherpeople over many years.
- Solid debugging skills on Windows: Visual Studio debugger, WinDbg or crash-dumpanalysis.
- Has led teams of 4 or more engineers.

Nice to have

- Rules engines, workflow engines or business rules systems.
- Kafka or other message queues.
- MS Access, VBA or Ruby on Rails.
- Rights management, licensing, royalties or contract systems in media, telecom billingor financial services.

📌 Technical Lead – Visual C++ & SQL Server (Hyderabad)
🏢 Navtech
📍 Hyderabad