Enterprise Team Lead - .NET, Azure + AI
About The Position
The Enterprise Team Lead is a hands-on architectural leader responsible for defining technical strategy, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring enterprise applications are designed, built, and operated effectively in production. The role provides architectural leadership while advancing application reliability, observability, performance, security, and operational excellence. Working across the full application lifecycle, the lead partners with client stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams to design and deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions. The position establishes engineering standards, supports modernization initiatives, and helps keep applications maintainable, performant, and supportable in production. The role also promotes modern software engineering practices and AI-powered development tools, including GitHub Copilot and Claude, to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery speed. It combines strategic architectural vision with active involvement in developing, supporting, and continuously evolving enterprise applications.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a Technical Architect, Solution Architect, Lead/Principal Engineer, or similar leadership role.
- Strong expertise in C#/.NET, enterprise application architecture, and high-volume REST API development.
- Experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, including Azure Functions, Service Bus, and Cosmos DB.
- Hands-on experience with microservices, distributed systems, containerized applications, and modern integration patterns.
- Strong knowledge of application security, performance optimization, scalability, resiliency, and observability best practices.
- Experience with React and modern web application development frameworks.
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, including globally distributed teams comprising client and third-party resources.
- Experience partnering with product owners and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Agile delivery methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and production support operations.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar platforms to improve engineering productivity and software delivery.
- Proven track record in technical leadership roles delivering solutions within defined timeframes.
- Skilled in building client relationships and participating in practice development activities.
- Demonstrated success performing work and managing complex and/or large consulting projects.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Azure certifications and/or architecture-related certifications.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with globally distributed teams and managing offshore teams.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Certification in the listed technologies (the posting contains the placeholder “Insert technologies”).
- Experience authoring, editing, and presenting technical documents.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a globally distributed development pod comprising client employees and third-party vendor resources, fostering accountability, collaboration, and high performance.
- Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to refine requirements, assess technical feasibility, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Own the pod’s technical architecture and solution design, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, and long-term business objectives.
- Drive sprint, release, and quarterly planning while proactively managing dependencies, risks, and cross-team coordination.
- Collaborate with architects, product teams, QA, operations, and other pod leaders to support successful end-to-end solution delivery.
- Provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, from design and development through deployment and production support.
- Ensure pod deliverables meet commitments with high quality, within scope, and on schedule.
- Lead stakeholder reviews, architecture discussions, sprint demonstrations, and status communications to provide transparency on progress and outcomes.
- Champion best practices in application reliability, observability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices and AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.
- Use analytical, process, and/or technical skills to meet project objectives and deliverables independently and within project scope.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
