Senior Technical Architect

Job Summary

PRAGATI .NET ARCHITECT Detailed Job Description Location Pan India ROLE BAND TECH STACK EXPERIENCE TYPE .Net Architect E3.2 .NET 13+ Years Full-time Role Purpose 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. 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 r

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

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