Azure Lead /Senior Developer

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• .Net Core, EF Core, Azure Functions hands-on experience.
• Hands-on Azure Functions, C#, .Net Core,  Core, Entity Framework and Web/Rest API.
• 8–10 years of hands-on experience in designing/architecting enterprise software solutions including cloud-based applications using C#, .Net Core,  Core, Entity Framework and Web/Rest API.
• Hands-on application development experience using Azure components such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, App Service, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Queues, Azure API Management, etc.
• Experience using best practices patterns and approaches to address the challenges inherent in re-engineering existing, complex systems.
• 5+ years using Azure DevOps – especially Git Repositories, pull requests, and creation of Deployment Pipelines.
• 3+ years developing UI-based applications leveraging modern practices and tools such as Blazor, Responsive Design, Bootstrap, Modular CSS, Ajax.
• 3–5 years of prior technical management experience leading and mentoring teams of software engineers.
• Ability to build relationships, balance multiple priorities, and communicate across diverse teams.
• Ability to deal with ambiguous situations.
• Experience working with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Effective communication and problem-solving capabilities.

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Provide technical expertise, project oversight, communication, and collaboration within the assigned development team(s) and with stakeholders, guiding and ensuring projects meet specifications.
2. Play a key role in architecting, designing, and building performant and scalable solutions using the Microsoft .NET Core stack and Azure platform.
3. Design and develop software applications on all levels (full stack) – persistence, business logic and service layers, frontend, and APIs.
4. Write scalable, testable, high-quality code that meets requirements.
5. Work closely with the offshore counterparts to mentor the team and strengthen them in terms of proactive and predictable delivery while ensuring the desired quality standards.
6. Mentor engineers on Software Engineering best practices via design and code reviews. Ensure delivery of high-quality, value-driven, operationally efficient features that support technology platform and business initiatives.
7. Own the software development life cycle. Lead development work and provide vision from project inception to architecture planning, development, release, and production.
8. Build robust relationships across development teams, business analysts and all key stakeholders involved in projects.
9. Collaborate closely with other teams (and managers) to help with continuous improvement of the architecture, tools, and processes.
10. Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization while keeping leaders apprised of strategies, operational progress, issues, concerns, mitigation, and remediation plans.