Technical Lead - Full Stack

The IT Application Lead is responsible for managing functional and technical delivery of assigned applications within the business systems landscape, and for managing deliveries from direct and indirect teams and service providers. The IT Application Lead is responsible for three key areas: Application Management, including maintenance, security, performance and support; Application Release Management; and Application Infrastructure Management, including hosting, databases and technologies within the application.

• Be responsible and accountable for the end-to-end management of the application life cycle in the run state, which includes hosting, data bases, licensing, development (enhancements and integrations), testing, release management, performance monitoring, security, back-ups, remediation and automation.
• Be responsible and accountable for the release cycle, which includes scheduling, coordinating and managing application enhancement and releases, including application updates, operating system patches, security improvements, hardware upgrades, and small to medium projects.
• Implement release processes for the progression of code in the development, test and production environments.
• Collaborate with and manage the participants and resources, including L2 and L3 teams involved in the applications.
• Monitor application development as part of projects, and support developers and testers in the build development and test environments.
• Use tools such as Remedy, InTouch, SRA, ALM and TFS to manage support and application releases as required.
• Work with Business Systems Sustaining Governance to improve software engineering processes and practices associated with building, deploying and updating application software and environments.
• Provide a leadership role in ensuring L2 and L3 teams are adhering to best practices, processes and tools, including adherence to Schlumberger application maintenance and security guidelines.
• Monitor the application performance to ensure that end users are being optimally serviced.
• Improve application performance and reduce time to market through automation.
• Remediate the application based on ticket analysis and improve the end user experience.
• Ensure that knowledge management and application documentation is updated systematically and periodically, including functional workflows and new enhancements.
• Manage integrations with other applications.
• Implement comprehensive and rigorous requirement gathering and a robust testing process.
• Manage user training.
• Be responsible for the security of the application, including business continuity and disaster recovery plans. * Manage the relationship with service providers for software development and infrastructure support.
• Participate in quarterly reviews with service providers to help the continuous improvement process.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead to provide hands-on technical leadership for business-critical enterprise applications across frontend, backend, APIs, microservices, integrations, and data platforms. The role combines strong software engineering expertise with solution design, technical decision-making, troubleshooting, engineering quality, and developer mentoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for application development, enhancements, modernization, and integration initiatives.
• Drive solution design across UI, backend, API, microservices, integration, and database layers.
• Define and review technical approaches, API contracts, service boundaries, integration patterns, and data flows.
• Remain hands-on and contribute to complex development, proof-of-concept work, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis when required.
• Provide technical guidance for Angular frontend development and C#/.NET backend implementation.
• Lead development and integration of RESTful APIs using ASP.NET WebAPI and microservices-based architectures.
• Review code and technical designs and promote maintainable, reliable, testable engineering practices.
• Identify technical risks, cross-system dependencies, performance concerns, and engineering blockers early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Support production troubleshooting across application, API, database, integration, and infrastructure layers.
• Work effectively with architects, developers, QA, DevOps, infrastructure teams, business stakeholders, and dependent application teams.
• Mentor developers, promote knowledge sharing, and strengthen team capability across frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native technologies.

Core Technical Skills

• Angular
• C# / .NET
• ASP.NET WebAPI
• REST APIs and JSON
• Microservices architecture
• MongoDB
• SQL Server
• Application architecture and solution design

Preferred / Additional Technology Exposure

• Docker and Kubernetes
• IIS and Nginx
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• RabbitMQ
• CI/CD and modern DevOps engineering practices

Candidate Profile

• Strong hands-on full-stack development background with the ability to work across Angular, .NET, APIs, microservices, and databases.
• Demonstrated ability to own technical solutions and guide developers through complex engineering challenges.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and technical decision-making skills.
• Experience working on business-critical enterprise applications and coordinating technical dependencies across systems.

Suggested Experience

8-12+ years of software development experience, with significant experience in solution design or technical leadership for complex enterprise applications.

SLB is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.