Senior Application Engineering Lead

Advisor Group•Scottsdale, AZ

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Osaic's advisor-facing applications are the core of what financial advisors use every day to manage client relationships, process transactions, and run their business. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader responsible for the design, development, and delivery of these applications. This person is someone who is most useful when in the code — doing in-depth code reviews, making architectural calls, solutioning along with the product team, helping engineers think through problems they're stuck on, and helping debug production issues. The ideal candidate combines deep application development expertise in C#/.NET, Angular, SQL Server, and Azure with Scaled Agile delivery leadership to drive engineering quality, mentor engineers, and ensure production excellence across distributed teams.

Requirements

Five or more years of application development experience, including at least 2 years leading projects and teams.
Comfortable with C#/.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, REST API design, dependency injection, and service-oriented architecture; has recent hands-on experience
Strong SQL Server skills — stored procedures, query performance, schema design.
Multi-year experience managing development using one or more of the following: SQL Server, Stored Procedures, C#.NET, .NET Core, MVC and Entity Framework
Angular 18+ fluency sufficient to meaningfully review component design, reactive forms, and TypeScript
Full-stack credibility — able to move between backend and frontend without losing the thread.
Azure development — working knowledge of App Service, SQL Database, and Service Bus; cloud-native patterns, ADO, CI/CD pipelines
Scaled Agile experience at the enterprise level and minimum 3 years’ experience with Agile Software development at the enterprise level
Project and people leadership experience.
Effective Communicator, both written and verbal.
Able to interact with multiple stakeholders and levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

Financial services background — broker-dealer, advisor platforms, or regulated financial systems such as banking, credit card or insurance domains.
Microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, message queues (RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus)
SonarQube or static code analysis experience

Responsibilities

Act as a player-coach to lead the team.
Review pull requests, contribute to architectural decisions, help diagnose production issues.
Mentor and guide engineers on technical strategy and implementation.
Work closely with Product, other technology teams, Compliance, and Operations to provide best in class software design and delivery.
Have a point of view and able explain clearly and present options when something doesn't make technical sense.
Lead Scaled Agile delivery across a distributed team including offshore resources.
Active participant and key point of contact in Agile ceremonies — PI planning, sprint execution, daily standups.
Keeps things moving without micromanaging and encourages cross-team coordination.
Support production stability of the application.
When something breaks, be part of figuring out why and making sure it doesn't happen again.
Demonstrate proactive problem resolution abilities and the ability to be a problem solver.
Manage vendors and offshore partners against quality standards and delivery commitments.
Coordinate resources and activities to achieve maximum productivity.
Create Software Architecture documentation and adhere to Enterprise Standards.