Technical Lead – Visual C++ & SQL Server
First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026.
**About the role**
You will lead the team taking over a large rights and licensing rules engine that has been in production for many years. It is written in Visual C++ on Windows Server, with heavy business logic in SQL Server. You will shadow the client's current technical lead, then own the architecture, code quality and release decisions for the system.
**Responsibilities**
* Lead knowledge transfer from the client's engineers and turn it into architecture documents, runbooks and code walkthroughs.
* Own technical design, code reviews and production releases for the rules engine.
* Lead a pod of 3 senior C++ developers and 1 Rails developer.
* Diagnose and resolve production issues, including performance problems in SQLServer.
* Plan the modernisation of legacy components (including MS Access dependencies)without disrupting live operations.
* Act as the main technical contact for the client's engineering leadership in the US and Cyprus.
**Must have**
* 12+ years in software development, with at least 7 years in C++ on Windows (VisualC++ / MSVC).
* Deep SQL Server experience: complex stored procedures, query tuning, execution plans, indexing. SQL Server 2016/2017 preferred.
* Has led a team that took over and maintained a large existing codebase built by otherpeople over many years.
* Strong debugging skills on Windows: Visual Studio debugger, WinDbg or crash-dumpanalysis.
* Has led teams of 4 or more engineers.
**Nice to have**
* Rules engines, workflow engines or business rules systems.
* Kafka or other message queues.
* MS Access, VBA or Ruby on Rails.
* Rights management, licensing, royalties or contract systems in media, telecom billingor financial services.
Skills
Visual C++, Visual Studio, Stored Procedures, Multithreading, Debugging