Senior Technical Lead

Job description

VOLVO IT Software Engineer, Order & Planning The role: A Software Engineer to maintain and develop a business-critical order and planning application in the automotive industry. The system distributes orders, handles high transaction volumes and supports production-critical processes. You will work across a complex application landscape spanning legacy .NET applications, domain services and integrations. Working closely with business stakeholders and technical teams, you will help keep order and planning flows reliable, efficient and aligned with operational needs. Responsibilities • Understand how orders are created, prioritized, planned and distributed across business and production processes. • Maintain and develop functionality for order handling and planning, guided by business requirements. • Work with stakeholders in business planning and production to clarify requirements and assess the impact of changes. • Ensure business rules and exceptions in order flows are handled clearly and predictably. • Consider operational dependencies and business impacts when changing production-critical processes. • Analyze and help resolve incidents affecting order distribution, planning or related integrations. • Support continuous improvement of business processes and user support. • Lead the team’s adoption of AI-supported ways of working by identifying practical opportunities to improve business outcomes, quality and efficiency. • Guide responsible AI use in the order and planning domain, considering operational criticality, data quality, traceability and human oversight. • Help the team evaluate AI initiatives against business needs, risks and measurable value, and support the transition from experimentation to operational use where appropriate. • Build AI capability across the team through knowledge sharing, coaching and guidance on tools, practices and limitations. • Encourage collaboration across business, planning, production and technology, and share lessons and reusable approaches from AI initiatives. Mandatory business requirements • Experience developing business-critical applications in the automotive industry. • Experience with order management, planning or distribution in a complex operational environment. • Experience with production planning, material supply or sequencing. • Understanding of how order data and planning decisions affect production, logistics and customer deliveries. • Experience working with systems that handle high transaction volumes, where failures or interruptions can affect production or deliveries. • Ability to understand complex business processes and assess how changes may affect downstream activities. • Experience working closely with business stakeholders and translating their needs into clear, actionable requirements. • Ability to analyses problems systematically, priorities based on business impact and follow issues through to resolution. Key Responsibilities • Strong collaboration and communication skills when working with business stakeholders and development teams. • A careful and accountable approach to changes affecting production-critical processes. • Experience in an environment with demanding requirements for delivery precision and operational continuity. Technical requirements The successful candidate will be comfortable navigating a large legacy solution, tracing behavior across UI, application, domain and infrastructure layers, and validating changes with focused tests. The role requires: • Strong C# and .NET Framework 4.8 experience, including maintaining large, non-SDK-style solutions. • Experience with ASP.NET, WCF, Windows Services and Windows Forms. • Solid SQL Server skills, including ADO.NET, Entity Framework, EF Core and stored procedures. • Ability to work in a layered, domain-driven architecture and make targeted changes without disrupting existing consumers. • Experience diagnosing integration and transaction issues in distributed systems. • Experience with .NET 10, OData and Swagger. • Experience with message-based integrations using MSMQ or IBM WebSphere MQ. • Experience with MSTest, Azure DevOps and CI/CD. • Familiarity with Unity, AutoMapper, Enterprise Library, Splunk and Serilog. • Experience with Telerik UI and SQL Server database projects (SSDT). On-site presence The role requires regular presence at the office to support close collaboration with the team and business stakeholders. On-site participation is particularly important for workshops, planning, problem-solving and knowledge sharing. Specific attendance expectations will be agreed with the hiring manager in line with team needs and company guidelines. 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. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first. HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. 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