Lead Software Engineer, Azure Solutions

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading medium-scale technical requirements elicitation, design, and scoping discussions internally and/or with existing and potential clients
• Decomposing medium-scale requirements/user stories into tasks, and accurately estimating the effort for themselves or others to complete those tasks
• Delegating technical tasks to other team members for multi-workstream projects of medium scale and moderate complexity
• Leading and driving projects, including both on- and off-shore resources
• Identifying problems independently and demonstrating proactive ownership of their solution, veting and evaluating others' proposed solutions, and delegating ownership to others where appropriate
• Proactively and professionally raises and articulates risks with the PM, project delivery team, and internal leadership
• Collaborating with the project team and internal leadership on potential solutions and mitigation approaches, and participating in the related client communication
• Demonstrating a proven, repeatable track record of successful medium-scale project delivery
• Monitoring other consultants' completion of tasks, helping other consultants eliminate or work around impediments, and identifying additional work for others
• Assisting in winning and/or extending business by working cross-functionally with sales and delivery to develop client proposals and presentations around process and solution options, clearly explaining technical concepts for shared understanding to facilitate decision-making
• Advising clients in an atmosphere of partnership at the primary stakeholder level
• Proactively guiding and consulting technical and non-technical project-level client stakeholders on technical concepts or design implications
• Presenting to clients in a business-focused, impactful, and persuasive manner

What You'll Bring to the Role

• 5+ years of experience with Agile delivery and is adaptable as required to methodologies within the client environment
• 5+ years' experience leading consulting projects for large clients with three or more of the following types of projects, and is considered a go-to source of knowledge for others:
• Azure Compute (PaaS & Containers)
• Data Stores: Fit-for-purpose selection
• Messaging & Events
• API Design & Management
• Integration & APIs
• AI & Search
• SDLC/DevOps/Platform Engineering
• Performance & Scalability/Reliability & Release
• Identity & Access (Application-centric)
• Monitoring & Observability
• Documentation & Leadership
• 5+ years' experience leading consulting projects for large clients with four or more of the following tools and technologies, and is considered a go-to source of knowledge for others:
• Design patterns and architectural concepts

-.NET Core

• C#
• Front-end development tools (Angular, React, Blazor, or comparable)
• ORM - Entity Framework/Dapper
• Data storage - relational and non-relational
• DevOps automation: CI/CD & IaC
• Visual Studio and source control: GitHub/ADO, Git and pull requests (e.g. gitflow)
• Automated tests
• Scrum/Kanban/Agile
• Experience contributing to user stories and backlog content, including task management and progress visibility
• 4 or more Microsoft Azure Application Development & DevOps, AI & Machine Learning, and/or Architecture & Development certifications.
• AZ204, AZ102 and AZ400 highly recommended
• Outstanding ability to present to clients in a business-focused, impactful, and persuasive manner
• Is a constant learner, and is proactive and passionate about seeking out educational opportunities, achieving certifications, following market trends, and overall self-improvement

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• #LI-Remote
• This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Actual compensation offered to a candidate may vary based upon geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill levels.

Benefits

Benefits available to eligible employees include the following:

• Medical, dental, vision
• tax-advantaged health care accounts
• financial and income protection benefits
• paid time off (PTO) and wellness time off.

This job posting will remain open until we have identified an adequate applicant pool. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early.