Senior Technical Architect

Job description

Provide end-to-end technical leadership for enterprise solutions on the .NET platform: translating business and non-functional requirements into scalable, secure and resilient architectures, and guiding engineering teams through implementation, modernization and operational readiness. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Design • Own high-level and detailed architecture for complex .NET applications, APIs, integrations and modernization initiatives. • Convert functional and non-functional requirements into blueprints, component designs, interface contracts and implementation guidance. • Select appropriate architecture patterns and assess trade-offs across scalability, performance, security, cost and maintainability. • Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, approved platforms, reusable patterns and target-state roadmaps. Technical Leadership & Governance • Give hands-on architectural direction to development, QA, DevOps, security and support teams. • Set coding, API, integration, logging, configuration, testing and deployment standards. • Run architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, technical risk assessments and PoC evaluations. Security, Reliability & Performance • Embed secure-by-design across identity, authorization, secrets, data protection and interface security. • Define resiliency patterns — retry, timeout, failover, HA and DR — plus performance and capacity targets. • Ensure observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerting. Stakeholder Engagement • Facilitate technical discovery with business, product, security, infrastructure and vendor stakeholders. • Communicate complex decisions clearly to engineering and leadership audiences. • Maintain architecture artifacts, decision records, risk logs and technical roadmaps. Key Responsibilities Technology Focus — .NET • Build and evolve .NET services, Web APIs and background workers with clean separation of concerns. • Apply modern .NET features, configuration, logging and dependency injection consistently across the codebase. • Modernize legacy .NET Framework components towards modern .NET, containers and cloud-ready hosting. Required Technical Competencies Core Skills C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, Web API, dependency injection, async/concurrency, performance tuning. Design & Architecture Enterprise application architecture, SOLID, design patterns, DDD, microservices, event-driven design, API management. Data & Integration Relational data design, Entity Framework, transactions, consistency, caching; REST APIs, messaging, event streaming. Platform & DevOps Azure or equivalent cloud, containers and orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, automated quality gates, secure supply chain. Quality & Operations Unit, integration, performance and resiliency testing; production readiness, monitoring, RCA. Experience & Qualifications • 13+ years in software engineering, with strong enterprise .NET design and delivery experience. • Proven track record as solution, application or technical architect on complex programmes. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience. • Relevant platform, cloud, architecture or DevOps certifications advantageous, not mandatory. Leadership & Behavioural • Architecture ownership with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset. • Structured problem solving and sound judgement under ambiguity. • Clear communication and influence across technical and business stakeholders. • Coaching mindset and strong stakeholder management. Location-Specific Expectations • Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones. • Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads. • Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness reviews. Key Deliverables & Success Measures • Approved, traceable, implementation-ready architecture and design artifacts. • Documented decisions, standards, risks, assumptions and mitigations. • Solutions meeting agreed security, performance, reliability and operational readiness. • Reduced technical risk via early validation, reusable patterns and automation. • Timely resolution of blockers; improved engineering consistency and code quality. Skill Requirements Other Requirements Apply now Information at a Glance Why HCLTech? At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. 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