Leads the design, development, testing, debugging, performance tuning, and support of high-performance .NET web applications. Provides architectural direction, conducts peer reviews, supports quality assurance, and promotes software development best practices. Collaborates with stakeholders on requirements, estimates, planning, and roadmap delivery. Leads technical teams, contributes to Agile processes, manages client expectations, and develops insurance solutions with a focus on quality, usability, and continuous improvement.
Job Overview:
The Principal Engineer/Architect – Services will be responsible for designing and providing solutions for .Net applications. Person should have a good understanding about the .Net/C#, Razor, view.js, MEF framework, SQL Server to create/customize the application.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, debug, test, and unit test high performance web applications used by customers around the world.
- Work within the defined Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, coding standards and best practices.
- Perform peer reviews to help the team adhere to architecture and design best practices.
- Impeccable computational thinking, the breakdown of large complex problems into small, simpler ones to solve technical and business challenges.
- Understands usability and ensures a positive web experience.
- Support Quality Assurance in testing, bug fixing and eliminating defects.
- Expand upon consistent architecture patterns for design and development.
- Assist in the implementation of appropriate software development methodologies, best practices, documentation, and tools.
- Participate in design, architecture, process and development discussions.
- Focus on quality and throughput goals for continuous improvement.
- Deliver project roadmap and client objectives on-time, communicating clearly with team, management and stakeholders.
- Contribute to technical direction and software development support to other team members.
- Review functional and technical requirements and raise potential issues.
- Self-driven/proactive with the ability to work independently and in a group setting.
- Collaborate with team members to provide support to customer objectives and goals in a professional and organized manner.
- Demonstrate strong problem solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
- Participate in project planning and project management as needed.
- Performance tuning and monitoring the application through available tools and supporting the application benchmarking activities.
- Delivery of work estimates for proposed changes, both small and large in scope
- Should have worked on SAFe Agile or equivalent delivery model.
- 12+ years of experience with C# .NET
- 12+ years of experience with ASP.NET MVC
- 12+ years of experience with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
- 12+ years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server
- 12+ years of experience with service-oriented architecture (SOA – SOAP/RESTful)
- 12+ years of experience with Visual Studio
Skills & Knowledge:
Technical Essential skills
- Very good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming.
- Very good programming experience on .Net/C#, Razor, MEF framework, Java script.
- Strong conceptual understanding of data base.
- Good understanding of MS SQL.
Desirable skills
- Experience in view.js.
- Experience of working on UI designs and integration using platform/tool will be an added advantage.
- Experience on working with “configuration” driven tools/platforms/framework would be added advantage.
Designing:
- Participating in requirements grooming session to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Designing functional modules and experience in analyzing, understanding, developing, and deploying insurance solutions.
Behavioral:
Essential skills
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Leading and building a strong technical team in .net technology.
- Assertive communication skills
- Driving change
- Flexibility
Domain Exposure:
- Insurance knowledge of P&C
Agile/Scrum Exposure:
- Good working knowledge of Agile methodologies.
Other skills:
Essential skills
- Proficient in client handling and expectation management
- Good at organizing and planning.
- Lead by example.
- Passionate to provide solutions.
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