Azure Lead Senior Developer

Section

Details

Job Title

Azure Lead/Senior Developer

Job Type

Full Time

Client Location

Oakland, CA

Work Arrangement

Remote

Duration

Full Time

Pay Rate / Salary

$120-$130k/yr.

Job Summary

• We are seeking an experienced Azure Lead / Senior Developer to design, develop, and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud applications and solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Azure cloud services, .NET/C#, microservices, APIs, cloud-native development, and DevOps, with the ability to provide technical leadership and mentor development teams.
• The role will involve translating business requirements into robust technical solutions, driving application modernization and cloud migration initiatives, and ensuring best practices for security, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• The candidate will collaborate with architects, product owners, developers, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise-grade Azure solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise, project oversight, communication, and collaboration within the assigned development team(s) and with stakeholders, guiding and ensuring projects meet specifications.
• Play a key role in architecting, designing, and building performant and scalable solutions using the Microsoft .NET Core stack and Azure platform
• Design and develop software applications on all levels (full stack) persistence, business logic and service layers, frontend, and APIs
• Write scalable, testable, high-quality code that meets requirements
• Work closely with the offshore counterparts to mentor the team and strengthen them in terms of proactive and predictable delivery while ensuring the desired quality standards.
• Mentor engineers on Software Engineering best practices via design and code reviews. Ensure delivery of high-quality, value-driven, operationally efficient features that support technology platform and business initiatives.
• Own the software development life cycle. Lead development work and provide vision from project inception to architecture planning, development, release, and production.
• Build robust relationships across development teams, business analysts and all key stakeholders involved in projects.
• Collaborate closely with other teams (and managers) to help with continuous improvement of the architecture, tools, and processes.
• Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization while keeping leaders apprised of strategies, operational progress, issues, concerns, mitigation, and remediation plans.

Required Qualifications

• .NET Core, EF Core, Azure functions hands on experience
• 8 10 years of hands-on experience in designing/architecting enterprise software solutions including cloud-based applications using C#, .Net Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework and Web/Rest API
• 5+ years using Azure Dev Ops - especially Git Repositories, pull requests, and creation of Deployment Pipelines
• 3+ years developing UI-based applications leveraging modern practices and tools such as Blazor, Responsive Design, Bootstrap, Modular CSS, Ajax.
• 3-5 years of prior technical management experience leading and mentoring teams of software engineers.
• Hands on Azure functions, C#, .Net Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework and Web/Rest API
• Hands-on application development experience using Azure components such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, App Service, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Queues, Azure API Management, etc.
• Experience using best practices patterns and approaches to address the challenges inherent in re-engineering existing, complex systems
• Ability to build relationships, balance multiple priorities, and communicate across diverse teams.
• Ability to deal with ambiguous situations.
• Experience working with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Effective communication and problem-solving capabilities