NEC Software Solutions - Team Lead - C#/.Net/WPF

Description :

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Development Team Lead with a strong technical foundation in full-stack client-server application development using Microsoft technologies within an enterprise environment. This is a hands-on leadership role, responsible for providing technical direction, line management, and mentoring to a team of onshore and offshore developers, while actively contributing to the design and development of high-quality software solutions.

The role requires close collaboration with the Software Development Manager, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and QA teams to ensure successful delivery of enterprise and cloud-based SaaS applications to time, budget, and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities :

- Provide functional and line management to a team of onshore and offshore software developers.

- Coach, mentor, and support team members to ensure consistent performance and professional growth.

- Proactively identify and address performance issues, maintaining high productivity and morale.

- Foster a collaborative, high-performing, multi-disciplinary team culture.

- Actively participate in architectural design decisions and influence the selection of technologies for current and future product suites.

- Ensure all software designs and implementations adhere to agreed technical architecture, coding standards, and NEC quality processes.

- Identify opportunities for process and technical improvements and work with the Development Manager to implement them.

- Perform hands-on, full-stack development of enterprise client-server applications.

- Design and develop high-quality features using appropriate technologies across backend and frontend layers.

- Ensure software is robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable.

- Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, estimation, design discussions, reviews, and retrospectives.

- Work closely with Business Analysts and Product Owners to understand and deliver functional requirements.

- Ensure compliance with development governance practices including:

- Coding standards and peer code reviews

- Unit and integration testing

- Automated testing and UX guidelines

- Maintain awareness of emerging technologies and industry best practices to keep development capabilities current.

Essential Skills & Experience :

Leadership & Delivery:

- Proven experience leading complex enterprise software development projects with teams of 10+ developers.

- Strong experience managing distributed teams, including onshore and offshore resources.

- Demonstrated success working within Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Strong interpersonal, motivational, and stakeholder management skills.

- Highly analytical with strong problem-solving capabilities and a continuous improvement mindset.

Technical Skills (Mandatory):

- 10+ years of experience developing enterprise software solutions.

- Strong hands-on expertise in:

- C# with .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 8.0

- Microsoft SQL Server

- Object-Oriented Design and Development

- Windows Services

- RESTful APIs and Web Services

- Service-oriented / component-based architectures

- Microservices architecture

- Frontend and desktop technologies:

- WPF with MVVM

- React.js, TypeScript

- HTML, CSS, JavaScript

- Experience developing high-performing, multi-threaded, real-time applications.

- Strong experience with:

- Unit testing and mocking frameworks (e.g., Moq)

- Dependency Injection

- Source control tools (Git, TFS)

- Visual Studio and Azure DevOps

- CI/CD pipelines

Nice to Have:

- Experience developing cloud-based SaaS applications.

- Exposure to Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native architectures.