Senior Specialist, Senior Azure Full-Stack Developer

Job Description

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview:

The Senior Azure Full-Stack Developer will be aligned to theBusiness Operations Technology (BOT) product line and will drive modernization and cloud-native development across a portfolio of mission-critical applications and services.

This is a hands-on role, responsible for designing and developing end-to-end cloud solutions -from modern web user interfaces to backend services-while also building, integrating, and supporting CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and platform automation.

Under the leadership of BOT technical and program leadership, this individual will play a key role in shaping BOT’s current and future cloud landscape. Beyond architecture and design leadership, this role requires direct execution and ownership -coding solutions, implementing pipelines, deploying infrastructure, and resolving issues across frontend, backend, and cloud platform layers.

This dual-impact model strengthens internal engineering maturity and supports BOT’s strategy of cultivating self-sufficient, full-stack product teams.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Application & Full-Stack Development

• Design, develop, modernize, and maintain business-critical applications using C#/.NET, Azure-native services, and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Build responsive, secure, and scalable web user interfaces using Angular and/or React, integrating seamlessly with backend APIs.
• Develop and enhance REST APIs and distributed backend components using Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, Azure SQL, and related services.
• Implement end-to-end application flows, including frontend-to-backend integration, authentication/authorization, and API consumption patterns.
• Contribute hands-on to As-Is and To-Be architecture evolution, including business, data, application, and technical models aligned to enterprise standards.
• Apply high-quality engineering practices: unit and integration testing (frontend and backend), code reviews, static analysis, telemetry integration, and automated validation gates.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across UI, backend services, integrations, runtime execution, and Azure cloud services.

DevSecOps, CI/CD & Infrastructure Engineering

• Build, maintain, and operate cloud-compatible CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML-based), including frontend and backend build/release workflows.
• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates across full-stack pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or Bicep; own the deployment, versioning, and lifecycle of BOT environments.
• Execute environment provisioning, configuration, secret management, and deployment troubleshooting for non-production and production systems.
• Configure and optimize monitoring and observability using Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, dashboards, and alerting for both UI and backend services.
• Diagnose failures across pipelines, infrastructure components, integrations, networking, identity, frontend delivery, and application layers; drive root-cause analysis and remediation.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with solution architects, business analysts, project managers, and product leaders to influence end-to-end design decisions and ensure cohesive delivery.
• Collaborate closely with IT engineering teams, shared services, and third-party providers to ensure consistent cloud and full-stack engineering standards.
• Mentor junior engineers on frontend frameworks (Angular/React), backend services, Azure architecture, IaC, DevSecOps, and operational readiness.
• Participate in story refinement, design discussions, technical prototyping, and modernization planning.
• Contribute to future-state process and information-flow mapping while driving incremental modernization deliverables.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline preferred.

Experience & Technical Skills

• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including full-stack development in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in C#/.NET, distributed systems, and Azure-based cloud architectures.
• Hands-on experience building modern web applications using Angular and/or React, with solid JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals.
• Proven experience integrating frontend applications with RESTful APIs and secure authentication mechanisms (e.g., OAuth, Azure AD).

• Demonstrated experience with Azure services, including:
  • App Service, Azure SQL
  • Azure Functions & Logic Apps
  • Service Bus, Event Grid
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Application Insights & Azure Monitor

• Strong background developing, documenting, and managing REST APIs using .NET Core and modern frameworks.
• Proficient with Azure DevOps, including Git/GitFlow, YAML pipelines, IaC (Terraform/Bicep), automated testing, and secure deployment practices.
• Ability to perform hands-on troubleshooting across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and cloud platform layers.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, object-oriented principles, secure coding, and enterprise architectural patterns.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical teams and architectural decisions.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and support both modern and legacy applications when required.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Experience working in mixed onshore/offshore delivery models.
• Ability to translate requirements into user stories and take full ownership of technical solutioning.
• Strong time-management and multitasking abilities, with comfort operating in fast-paced, time-sensitive environments.
• Capable of evaluating architectural decisions and ensuring they align with long-term strategies and cloud best practices.
• Strong sense of ownership for delivery quality, engineering excellence, and product outcomes.
• Passion for continuous learning, introducing new technology approaches, and reducing technical debt through incremental modernization.

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