Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Architecture:

• Own the technical success of an engagement, ensuring architectural coherence and reuse across services, data, and AI components.

• Drive technical decisions and document them as ADRs: database engine selection, service vs library boundaries, and integration patterns.

• Lead architecture review boards and resolve cross-team design dependencies.

Engineering Delivery & Quality:

• Set engineering standards: trunk-based development,IaC(Terraform/Bicep), CI gates, SLSA L2 provenance,OpenAPI3.x andAsyncAPI2.x contracts, and idempotent integration patterns.

• Lead code and design reviews; enforce quality gates and SOC 2 control mappings (logical access, monitoring, change management, audit trail).

• Plan and orchestrate delivery cadence, including sequencing of build and release windows for engagements with production blackout constraints.

Stakeholder Engagement & Mentorship:

• Partner withAubrantsolution architects and client product owners to translate domain knowledge into technical designs.

• Mentor engineers on Azure architecture, event sourcing, durable orchestration, and HITL design patterns.

• Run agile delivery in 2-week sprints with monthly stakeholder demos,hypercareplanning, and post-go-live support.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Scienceor a related discipline, or equivalent experience; MUST be proficient in written and spoken English (85%).

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience with at least 3 years in a technical lead or staff engineer capacity on multi-team delivery.

Expert-level proficiency in Azure architecture , including Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry, Document Intelligence, AI Search, Container Apps or AKS, API Management, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Entra ID.

Expert-level proficiency leading complex software delivery , including architectural design, ADR-driven decisions, event sourcing, DDD bounded contexts, and SOC 2 control mapping.

• Strongproficiencyin .NET (C#) and Python; ability to set patterns across both languages within the same engagement.

• Hands-on experience with Medallion data architecture, RAG patterns, prompt versioning and guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflow design.

• Experience leading CI/CD with Azure DevOps,IaC(Terraform/Bicep), and trunk-based development with quality gates.

• Proven experience working in financial services, professional services, or other regulated environments with strict audit and compliance requirements.

• Strong code review, mentorship, and technical communication skills; ability to lead architecture discussions with both engineering teams and client executives.

• Experience with durable orchestration (Azure Durable Functions or equivalent) and confidence-gated agentic workflows is a plus.

• Experience integrating with enterprise SaaS platforms (e.g., financial, ERP, document management systems) is a plus.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;strong communication, collaboration, customer orientation, innovation mindset, and adaptability under ambiguity.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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Source: Himalayas