Job Description :

Do you want to lead the engineering of custom business applications that directly support and improve how the company operatesfrom launching new capabilities to keeping critical systems stable and evolving?

As Tech Lead for our Custom Business Applications team, youll drive technical direction and hands on delivery across our Azure full stack landscape.

Youll help shape solution designs, set engineering standards, and lead by example in code balancing new application development with the corrective and evolutive maintenance of existing solutions to ensure reliability, security, and long term maintainability.

This is a hands on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys turning business needs into robust solutions, guiding a team through complexity, and making pragmatic decisions that keep systems running smoothly while continuously improving them.

Responsibilities :

Technical Leadership :

- Understand the E2E high level architecture (big picture).

- Translate the HLD (high level design) into the LLD (low level design) in collaboration with architects and own the LLD.

- Technical direction for the product area.

- Contribute to coordinating cross-team dependencies and integration points.

Delivery & Execution Excellence :

- Contribute to the feature definition and review.

- Generate concepts and facilitate the concept selection.

- Breaking down complex features into actionable tasks.

- Helping with estimation and sprint planning.

- Addressing technical impediments.

- Own production readiness (incl. non-functional requirements).

Quality, Governance & Security :

- Ensuring code quality.

- Conducting meaningful code reviews and ensuring adherence to DoR (Definition of Ready) / DoD (Definition of Done) criteria.

- Ensure adherence to applicable standards, policies, and practices (e.g. DevSecOps).

Incident Response :

- Leading incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortems.

Mentorship & Team Growth :

- Mentoring team members.

- Documenting key design decisions.

- Participate in interviews and hiring decisions.

- Promoting engineering best practices and driving continuous improvement.

Collaboration & Communication :

- Act as the primary technical point of contact across Product, Architecture, and Platform teams.

- Clearly communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications :

- Bachelors degree in computer science, IT, or related field.

- 10+ years professional experience in software development.

- Experience with programming languages like C#, PowerShell, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or others relevant to Azure development.

- Experience using Microsoft .NET, Angular, or similar frontend frameworks.

- Hands?on experience designing and operating event?driven systems using Event Sourcing and CQRS.

- Experience with React, Next.js, GraphQL, and TypeScript.

- Experience working with web services / APIs (e.g., REST).

- Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases, particularly those offered on Azure.

- Proficiency in using various Azure services like Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, etc.

- Understanding and knowledge of cloud security best practices.

- Clean Code Development and working experience with Unit Testing, and Test-driven Development.

- Familiarity with source code version control, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines and other DevSecOps practices.

- Working knowledge of Agile development practices.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team.

- Fluency in English (spoken and written).

- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

- Ability to adjust quickly to changing assignments, and priorities.

Assets :

- Experience using AI assisted coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) responsibly, with full accountability for code quality, security, and compliance.

- Experience working with and contributing to UX designs.

- Working experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.

- Relevant certifications (e.g. Azure Developer Associate, Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty).