Dot Net Technical Lead

As a Technical Lead, you will be responsible for leading and guiding the development team, designing, and implementing .NET solutions, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software developers, product managers, and stakeholders, to drive innovation, quality, and efficiency in .NET application development. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in .NET technologies, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver technical systems
• Maintain adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc
• Participate in the development and review of documents to comply with SDLC methodologies [e.g. Engineering Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), estimation, Solution Design Document (SDD) and Software Architecture Documents (SAD)]
• Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining the project during the transition to production where necessary
• Adhere to Application Engineering methodologies, standards, code reviews
• Provide feedback regarding application engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices when appropriate
• Identify potential points of contention for missed activities and notify project leadership of situation and remediation plan
• Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects
• Provide technical guidance to development team members
• Technical deliverables (i.e., code and documentation) on projects assigned
• Translate detailed Requirements and Design and Solution Architecture deliverables into detailed design specifications
• Maintain effective and consistent communication within the team, with peers, the leadership team and the peers in other IT groups
• Proactively raise issues to Technical and Group Leads when necessary
• Produce high-quality application engineering deliverables in accordance with the project timeline
• Build and unit test a project to detailed design specifications
• Provide thought leadership and technical guidance to engineering staff
• Application Development Work breakdown structure
• Solutions Design Documents
• Release Packages
• Hand-over documentation for operations
• Unit Test Scripts
• Assign tasks to developers
• Review of code completed
• Review performance of developers
• Make assessments of contractor abilities
• Proactively anticipate project issues before they occur; define the problem; identify possible causes; work with the team to identify solutions; select and implement the most appropriate solution
• Apply judgment in implementing Application Engineering methodologies, processes, and practices to specific requirements of projects/programs which may include product design engineering, information security, code maintainability and reliability

Analytical/Decision-Making Responsibilities:

• Proactively anticipates project issues before they occur; defines the problem; identifies possible causes; works with the team to identify solutions; selects and implements most appropriate solution
• Applies judgment in implementing Application Engineering methodologies, processes, and practices to specific requirements of projects/programs which may include product design engineering, information security, code maintainability and reliability
• Sound analytical skills and problem-solving skills needed to manage multiple technical challenges simultaneously per each project assigned when needed

Knowledge/Skills Requirements:

• Recent demonstrable experience of performing a tech lead role in a significant, client facing delivery programme with a multi-country, multi-discipline team, likely to come from a solutions and infrastructure architecture background
• Excellent broad architecture and troubleshooting knowledge
• Extensive broad Development knowledge (including but not limited to AngularJS, .Net MVC Web Api, SQL Server, SSIS, ETL, ADO.Net, Entity Framework etc).including a solid understanding of the Client Side Object Model
• Relevant product knowledge of a broad range of technologies, link aggregating sites exposed to both internal and external clients, plus the associated underlying provisioning and site administration capabilities
• Recent experience of working within financial domain preferable but not mandatory
• Solid interpersonal communication and team skills required to operate as a contributing member of global technical teams that deliver quality services
• Strong technical skills designing, developing, debugging, documenting, and implementing applications
• Strong knowledge and experience in all IT methodologies and life cycles that will be used
• Possesses an understanding of IT Services: service offerings, technical standards and policies, technical and business strategies as well as organizational structure
• Maintains awareness of new and emerging technologies and the potential application on service offerings and products provided by IT
• Excellent level of communication skill in English is mandatory

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in a technical field and/or equivalent work experience
• At least 3 years acting as a senior architecture / technical lead role in a comparable organization
• Significant experience of deploying large, enterprise wide implementations to significant (100k+) user volumes
• At least 5 years of hands on experience leading a team of developers either onshore or offshore - defining work breakdown structures/tasks, assigning the team work items, monitoring and ensuring quality and adherence to standards etc.
• At least 7 years of relevant hands-on work experience building, integrating and delivering enterprise-wide web and windows applications using Microsoft and other technologies for large organizations on complex projects
• 7+ years of ASP.Net MVC, ASP.Net experience
• 5+ years of experience of working with applications that have a SQL Server backend with SSIS ETLs
• 5+ years of experience with Team Foundation Server or GIT
• 3+ years experience of Azure servers and Azure Devops (VSTS)
• 5+ years of experience with Object-Relational Mappers such as Entity Framework
• Ideally experience working with SSRS, SSIS
• Experience with SharePoint, HTML 5, JSON, Web API, Web Services mandatory
• Experience with MongoDB or other document databases, WCF, WPF, VBA etc would be a plus
• Knowledge and experience with working on N-Tier applications.
• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) principles, and familiarity with many design patterns for Software applications.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships
• Demonstrated expertise in application design and construction, work breakdown structure of items, design and code reviews, unit test and build activities, deployment and performance related activities, documentation, support and training/mentoring
• Good understanding of ISMS
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Experience working on projects following Agile methodologies would be ideal
• Experience working with Azure or other cloud providers would be ideal
• Ability to work within diverse, global, virtual teams.
• Proven ability to thrive under pressur