Team Lead, Integrations

Genesis10•Irving, TX

6h•Onsite

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking a Team Lead, Integrations for a direct hire opportunity with a Financial Services Corporation. This role involves overseeing the day-to-day work of the integration engineering team, ensuring solutions align with designs. The Lead Integration Engineer acts as a bridge between the Integration Solutions Architect and the engineering team, responsible for the quality, consistency, and completeness of implementations. The ideal candidate is a proficient .NET and Azure practitioner who actively codes and reviews, while also being skilled in coaching engineers and maintaining high documentation standards. This is a hands-on technical lead position, not solely focused on people management.

Requirements

2 years of Team Leadership experience formally or informally leading engineers, assigning work, reviewing output, and being accountable for team quality.
Demonstrated track record running code reviews at scale, including giving direct, actionable feedback to engineers.
Experience defining or enforcing a definition-of-done that includes documentation, not just working code.
Deep, hands-on experience with Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, and/or Event Hubs.
Configuring, securing, and reviewing APIs built by others within Azure API Management (APIM).
Building and reviewing orchestration workflows in Azure Logic Apps.
Expert-level fluency with Core Azure Platform: Container Apps, App Service, Azure Functions, Virtual Machines.
Expert-level fluency with Virtual Networks (VNets), Private Endpoints, NSGs, Application Gateway, Azure Front Door.
Expert-level fluency with Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files, Cosmos DB.
Expert-level fluency with Azure SQL, including reviewing query and schema design decisions.
Expert-level fluency with Cosmos NoSQL DB.
Expert-level fluency with Azure Cache for Redis.
Expert-level fluency with Security & Identity: System- and user-assigned Managed Identity.
Expert-level fluency with Secrets & Key Management: Azure Key Vault integration review.
Expert-level fluency with Network Security: Private Link, Private Endpoints, WAF.
Expert-level fluency with Identity & Access: App Registrations.
Expert-level fluency with Authentication & Authorization: OAuth flows.
Expert-level fluency with Infrastructure as Code & DevOps: IaC with Terraform; able to review and approve infrastructure changes.
Expert-level fluency with Azure DevOps pipeline design, branch policies, and mandatory-review gate configuration.
Expert-level fluency with Observability & Monitoring: Application Monitoring using Application Insights.
Expert-level fluency with Log Management and Analytics Platform Monitoring using Azure Monitor.
Expert-level fluency with Query & Analysis using KQL (Kusto Query Language).
Expert-level fluency with Alerting, dashboards, and validating solution observability.
Minimum 8 years of solid .NET coding experience (C#, ASP.NET Core, background/worker services).
Expert knowledge of common design and patterns including .NET patterns, libraries and Azure services.
Strong technical writing skills.
Visual Modeling with Lucid chart / Azure architecture diagramming.
Comfortable delivering direct feedback in code review and 1:1 settings.
Experience working with Jira, including grooming and sequencing work for a team.
Accountability: Treats the team's output as their own.
Consistency: Applies review standards evenly across engineers.
Coaching Orientation: Uses code review as a teaching moment.
Escalation Judgment: Knows the difference between an implementation fix and a design flaw.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of professional software engineering experience, including 3 years focused on cloud-based integration work.
Prior experience reviewing or leading the work of other engineers required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with graph database design and implementation (e.g., Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin).
Azure Data Factory.
Microsoft Fabric.
Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse.
Prior experience in financial services or another regulated industry (GLBA, SOX, PCI-DSS, SOC 2).

Responsibilities

Oversee the work of Senior Integration Engineers and Integration Engineers, assigning and sequencing implementation work against architectural designs and sprint commitments.
Track team throughput and quality — surfacing blockers, skill gaps, or capacity risks to the Architect and IT leadership.
Mentor engineers on .NET craftsmanship, Azure integration patterns, and troubleshooting techniques; run knowledge-sharing sessions on recurring issues.
Act as the first escalation point for implementation-level technical questions before they go to the Architect.
Perform code reviews on all integration/engineering work prior to merge/release, checking for correctness, security, performance, and adherence to team coding standards.
Serve as the quality gate between engineering output and production.
Identify recurring code-quality issues across the team and turn them into coding standards, checklists, or automated lint/analyzer rules.
Verify that implementations correctly apply the integration design patterns specified by the architecture.
Maintain a living reference of approved pattern implementations (reference code, snippets, examples) the team can build from consistently.
Ensure every integration solution ships with complete, audit-ready documentation.
Define and enforce the team's documentation checklist/definition-of-done.
Keep architecture and Lucid chart diagrams synchronized with what is deployed.
Continue to design and write .NET code and Azure configuration directly for complex, high-risk, or exemplar pieces of work.
Lead root-cause investigation on significant production incidents.
Partner with the Architect on estimation, technical risk assessment, and sequencing for upcoming integration initiatives.
Contribute to and enforce infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD standards.