Lead .NET Developer - Hybrid

About HCLTech

HCLTech is a global technology company, spread across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. We re powered by our people a global, diverse, multi-generational talent - representing 161 nationalities whose unique spark, perspective and boundless passion drive our culture of proactive value creation and problem-solving.

To learn more about how we can supercharge progress for you, visit www.hcltech.com

Role Purpose

Lead the design, development and delivery of .NET solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Design & Delivery

• Own detailed design for .NET components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture.
• Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria.
• Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team.
• Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations.

Team Leadership

• Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach.
• Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing.
• Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the .NET skill set.
• Quality & Operations
• Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team.
• Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps.
• Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds.

Collaboration & Governance

• Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management.
• Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team.

Technology Focus — .NET

• Build and evolve .NET services, Web APIs and background workers with clean separation of concerns.
• Apply modern .NET features, configuration, logging and dependency injection consistently across the codebase.
• Modernize legacy .NET Framework components towards modern .NET, containers and cloud-ready hosting.

Required Technical Competencies

• Core Skills: C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, Web API, dependency injection, async/concurrency, performance tuning.
• Design & Architecture: Enterprise application architecture, SOLID, design patterns, DDD, microservices, event-driven design, API management.
• Data & Integration: Relational data design, Entity Framework, transactions, consistency, caching; REST APIs, messaging, event streaming.
• Platform & DevOps: Azure or equivalent cloud, containers and orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, automated quality gates, secure supply chain.
• Quality & Operations: Unit, integration, performance and resiliency testing; production readiness, monitoring, RCA.

Experience & Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in software engineering with strong .NET expertise.
• Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory.

Leadership & Behavioural

• Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes.
• Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions.
• Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Coaching mindset and collaborative working style.
• Location-Specific Expectations
• Work from the Curitiba delivery location with local customer stakeholders and global teams.
• Participate in on-site and virtual workshops, design reviews and governance forums.
• Effective communication in a multi-country model, with overlap into European and Indian working hours.

Why choose us?

We are one of the largest and fastest growing technology companies in the world, with offices in over 60 countries and 224,000 employees

Our company is extremely diverse with 165 nationalities represented

We offer the opportunity to work with colleagues from all over the world

We offer a virtual-first work environment, promoting a good integration between your work and personal life, with real flexibility

We are committed to your growth, offering learning and career development opportunities at all levels to help you find your unique brilliance.

Equality & Opportunity for All

Representing 165 nationalities worldwide, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, disability or genetic information, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state and/or local laws

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