Sr Software Engineer(Azure)

Senior Software Engineer

The Senior Developer is a position requiring working with our international clients, business partners, architects, developers, management and other IT groups to understand and design technical solutions for the desired capabilities. 

Collaboration, communication, and problem solving are key skills required.  This developer is ultimately responsible for a complete detailed technical design for a given project for the application.    

This position will be in Hyderabad at our India location.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Drives the development of design and build phases of the project
• Communicates frequently with management on project status, issues or news
• Technically leads the projects in the development process, as required
• Promotes and assures team follows the methodology standards and development process standards set by the Architects
• Participating in design reviews
• Leads software reviews for consistency with best practices, standards and architecture guideline including code review
• Proactively finds solutions to problems, document procedures, and drives the problem resolution approach
• Collaborates and work with the Architects and others leads to design the appropriate solution for the project using the Architect guidelines.
• Collaborate with Application & Database Architecture in the selection of the best design of projects
• Ensure design meets user requirements and expectations
• Analyzes conditions and strategies that effectively minimize implementation risk and/or improve system reliability and performance
• Ensure and facilitate the integration of components and systems
• Participating in team meetings with peers, staff and users
• Demonstrates drive and leadership on projects and assignments
• Works and meets with the team very frequently to discuss issues, progress, questions, open items, etc.
• Deliver all project commitments with quality and on schedule

Working Hours: 3:30 PM IST to 12:30 AM IST

What are the requirements needed for this position?

Education

• Completion of bachelor’s degree in MIS, CS, Technical Certification, etc. and/or 5 - 10 years of experience.
• Application-specific certifications generally considered a plus in the applications areas of focused for the technical lead.  If certifications are not in place initially it is expected the lead will pursue and obtain these.

• Technical and non-technical Knowledge and Skills
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Broad knowledge of web applications and infrastructure
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems
  • Experience with Microservices design and development
  • Experience with cloud application design patterns
  • Experience in application architecture, design, and development a plus
  • Experience in influencing others, managing conflict and interacting well with individuals throughout the organizational hierarchy
  • Strong communication and leadership in cross-functional teams.
• Previous Experience
  • Experience administrating geographically dispersed systems. 
  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in technology services related work.
  • Minimum of 4 years of related hardware/software and system technologies.
  • Hands-on Scrum experience: story slicing, estimation (story points), prioritization, and delivering working software each Sprint.
  • Fluent in English is required

Technology requirements

Broad knowledge and experience in the use of expertise in distributed technologies including:

• Expert in C#/.NET 6+, ASP.NET Core, LINQ, async/await, RESTful design, strong debugging and performance profiling.
• 7+ years in software engineering; 3+ years building on Azure using PaaS services (App Service/Functions), and messaging (Service Bus).
• Advanced Oracle (SQL/PL/SQL, indexing, query plans, performance tuning).
• .NET DRY / SOLID Principles
• Hands-on APIM: policy authoring (rate-limit/quota, transform, validate-jwt, CORS), API lifecycle (versioning, revisions), products/subscriptions, developer portal, private networking/VNet, and integration with Front Door/WAF.
• Event-driven architectures (Service Bus/Event Grid)
• Hands-on CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub), IaC (Bicep/Terraform/ARM)
• Instrument services with App Insights/Log Analytics; improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Others including CodeSmith code generator, Web Services, WSS 3.0, WSE, & WCF, CSS, HTML, DHTML; JavaScript
• test-driven development (TDD)
• Service Fabric Microservices 
• Reporting tool – SSRS and SharePoint
• SQL server 2014 + is a plus

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience, and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

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