Engineering Lead & Principal Architect (.NET)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day engineering execution, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and delivery commitments in partnership with the Project Manager.
• Direct the technical assignment of work across developers, the DevSecOps engineer, and the QA engineer; identify and resolve blockers in real time.
• Own engineering quality gates, including code review standards, branching strategy, definition of done, and release readiness.
• Conduct technical one-on-ones with engineers on the team and provide technical performance input to the formal management chain.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the Project Manager, Product Owner, and program leadership on delivery status, risk, and tradeoffs.

Architecture and Technical Direction

• Provide senior architectural guidance for a modular enterprise application platform and related solution components.
• Define and promote architecture principles, design patterns, and engineering standards that support scalability, maintainability, security, and reuse.
• Evaluate current-state application architecture, implementation patterns, and technical risks, and recommend improvements aligned with platform goals.
• Guide architectural decisions for application structure, integrations, data flows, extensibility, and performance.
• Partner with DevSecOps and infrastructure stakeholders to ensure application architecture aligns with hosting, deployment, observability, identity, and security requirements.
• Support phased modernization efforts by helping the team incrementally improve architecture and implementation without disrupting delivery commitments.
• Participate in design reviews, technical planning, and solution assessments for both current and upcoming capabilities.
• Help develop reference implementations, reusable patterns, and technical guardrails that improve consistency across the platform.

Hands-On Technical Contribution

• Contribute regularly in the codebase, including pairing on complex problems, prototyping, and writing production code in high-risk or high-leverage areas.
• This is not a hands-off role.
• Develop reference implementations and prototypes that validate architectural direction and unblock delivery.
• Conduct code-level reviews and contribute directly to implementation to establish patterns, improve quality, and ensure alignment with architectural standards.
• Mentor engineers on sound architectural practices and effective implementation approaches.