.NET Architect/Lead

Role: .NET Architect/Lead
Location: Oaks, PA (Hybrid- 3days onsite in a week)

Overview:
The Technical Lead will primarily focus on development, maintenance, and support of Modern Full Stack Platform applications. This role will be responsible for delivery of critical product requirements and will be interact with a culturally and technically diverse team, which includes .Net developers, SQL developers, QA and product management teams.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
Leads in defining, documenting and developing software, software applications, as well as contributes to architecture and technical design discussions, code reviews and technical design/specifications in collaboration with the project team
Responsible for development, enhancement, testing, support, maintain and troubleshoot/ debug software applications that support business units or support functions. These application program solutions may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies and tools.
Provides sound project management skills to the team and assignments
Creates thorough, professional quality project documentation and technical specifications
Evaluates software change requests, determines business need or conducts root cause analysis, and implements technically efficient solutions
Assesses the impact of software changes and new development on other systems; conducts integration tests to mitigate risks
Mentors peers and junior team members, and participates in and promotes a knowledge-sharing environment
Proactively recommends, schedules, and performs software improvements and upgrades
Recommends best practices and policies for installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting end user access and usage of database applications

Specific Job Skills and Experience:
8 or more years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Experience with the full software development life cycle, including design, testing, deployment, and documentation activities (including agile and scrum patterns)
Following technical skills and experience is required
8+ years of deep understanding of .NET Core Architecture. Application development C#, ASP .Net Core 8, SQL Server. .NET Framework, MVC & Web API 2.0
8+ years of strong SQL/ T-SQL expertise (SQL Server and exposure to PostgreSQL is desirable): query optimization, indexing strategies, transaction semantics. Model data and optimize SQL (indexes, query tuning, partitioning); contribute to schema evolution and migration strategies in Microsoft SQL Server
8+ years of hands‑on with Angular versions 14 to 18, responsive UI , HTML, Bootstrap, JQuery, CSS3 and accessibility best practices.
8+ years of proven experience with microservices architecture: service decomposition, API design, inter‑service communication.
5+ years of Containerization expertise (Docker) and practical exposure to Kubernetes (authoring manifests, debugging pods).
Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals: OO/FP, concurrency, networking, data structures, security.
Adopt TDD: write unit/integration tests, participate in code reviews, pair programming, and continuous refactoring, clean code practices.
REST Services Architecture knowledge
Good experience with Cloud Platform specifically in Microsoft Azure
Unit Testing Frameworks
Web Development Concepts (State Management, Stateless Development)
Asynchronous Programming Paradigm
LINQ & Lambda Expressions
Solid background in Designing & Implementing Applications using technologies defined by the IMS Enterprise Architecture
Strong experience in analyzing and optimizing already deployed applications
Extensive knowledge and hands on experience designing and developing objects and components of relational database
Strong experience with Agile methodologies
Knowledge and understanding of SDLC, with a strong preference for Agile experience
Skill for writing reusable libraries
Must have experience on full stack development on Microsoft platform
Excellent written/verbal communication, presentation, and listening skills
Excellent collaboration/teamwork skills
Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable application
Experience creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
Knowledge of concurrency patterns
Known experience in Caching techniques

Desirable / Nice‑to‑Haves
Exposure to Apache Airflow (DAG authoring, scheduling, deployment in containerized/K8s environments).
Event streaming (Kafka/RabbitMQ), caching (Redis), message‑driven architectures.
Cloud experience (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform) including managed Kubernetes and secrets/identity.
Observability stack (PrometheGrafana, ELK).
Security by design: OAuth/OIDC, TLS, secrets management, OWASP Top 10 mitigations.