Software Architect I

Principal Engineer (.NET & Azure) Experience: 10+ Years Role Summary Lead the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native applications. Provide architecture guidance, technical leadership, hands-on engineering support, and mentor teams to drive engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Architect and design enterprise applications using .NET Core, Microservices, and Azure. Define and enforce architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices. Lead technical design reviews, POCs, and solutioning discussions. Guide development teams and help resolve complex technical challenges. Drive application reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence.

Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders for successful delivery. Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement. Mandatory Skills: .NET Core / C# Microservices Architecture Azure Services: App Services, Service Bus, Durable Functions, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Function Apps SQL Server Application Design & Architecture Design Patterns, SOLID Principles, Distributed Systems REST APIs, Event-Driven Architecture Observability using Dynatrace or equivalent APM tools Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production support skills Good to Have Skills: NoSQL Databases (Cosmos DB, MongoDB, etc.)

Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) AI Agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication Experience integrating LLM/Generative AI solutions Leadership & Soft Skills: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills Strong coordination and cross-functional collaboration abilities Proven experience mentoring and guiding development teams Ability to drive technical decisions and influence engineering direction Strong ownership, problem-solving, and delivery mindset