Sonarqube SME

Job: Senior Software Engineer(SonarQube Expert). Experience 6 + years

Location - Offshore -Any TechM India.

• About the Role:
• We are looking for a senior SonarQube expert who will focus on optimizing SonarQube adoption, defining best practices, improving developer experience, reducing recurring support issues and guiding platform strategy and roadmap decisions.
• The ideal candidate should have hands-on SonarQube expertise combined with the ability to assess platform usage across teams, identify improvement opportunities and recommend solutions that drive engineering quality and efficiency at scale.

Key Responsibilities :

• Assess current SonarQube adoption and usage across engineering teams.
• Define and promote SonarQube best practices, standards and governance.
• Review recurring support issues and recommend long-term solutions to reduce ticket volume.
• Advice on Quality Gates, Quality Profiles, code coverage strategies and security practices.
• Recommend improvements to onboarding, self-service capabilities, templates and developer experience.
• Guide strategic decisions related to SonarQube Enterprise, Data Center, and SonarCloud.
• Support platform roadmap planning, upgrades, migrations and scalability initiatives.
• Define meaningful metrics and dashboards to measure adoption, quality improvements and platform effectiveness.
• Evaluate emerging capabilities such as SonarQube MCP, AI-assisted code quality and developer productivity tooling.

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with SonarQube administration and governance.
• Good understanding of SonarQube architecture and core components like web server, computing engine, search server and database.
• Experience working with SonarQube Enterprise, Data Center, or SonarCloud environments.
• Deep understanding of Quality Gates, Quality Profiles, code coverage, SAST, and technical debt management.
• Experience integrating SonarQube with Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar DevOps platforms.
• Exposure to or awareness of SonarQube MCP (Model Context Protocol) server setup to surface quality data to AI coding tools.
• Familiarity with MCP tooling that delivers issue context and fix suggestions within developer IDEs (VS Code, IntelliJ, Cursor, etc.)
• Ability to analyze platform usage, identify gaps and recommend improvements.
• Experience creating enterprise-wide standards, best practices and onboarding models.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.