AI-Driven .NET Tech Lead – Microservices & Cloud

broadridge; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadridge is seeking a Lead .Net Software Engineer to shape the technical direction, architecture, standards, and delivery of our core platform. This hands-on leadership role combines software depth with pragmatic architectural judgement and mentoring across teams.

You will guide design across microservices, APIs, event flows, BFFs, and frontend components in an event-driven environment, while advancing AI-assisted development and governance of AI agents and workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in software engineering, with significant hands-on experience in C# and .NET.
• Experience designing and building production microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience with BFF patterns and service-oriented frontend integration approaches.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
• Solid grasp of software design principles, OO programming, design patterns, and maintainable systems.
• Experience contributing to or leading technical design and architecture decisions.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines; Jenkins experience is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of build automation, deployment pipelines, and engineering workflows.
• Experience with testing, code reviews, and software quality practices.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools and AI-first software development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across design, implementation, and delivery.
• Contribute hands-on in the codebase and model strong engineering practices.
• Help shape architecture across microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, BFFs, and frontend applications.
• Guide the design of scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.
• Work with architects and engineers to turn technical direction into practical outcomes.
• Define and promote engineering standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Support engineers through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and technical problem-solving.
• Collaborate with product, delivery, and business stakeholders to align solutions with priorities.
• Translate requirements into clear solution designs and actionable technical work.
• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Contribute to AWS-based architecture and engineering practices, including Lambda, ECS, and EC2.
• Improve observability, reliability, performance, security, and operational readiness.
• Contribute to Jenkins pipelines and CI/CD practices to improve delivery efficiency.
• Help embed AI-assisted development into engineering workflows across design, coding, testing, and documentation.
• Support the design, operation, and continuous improvement of selected AI agents and agent-enabled workflows.
• Help define and apply guardrails, governance, and quality controls for AI-enabled tools.
• Maintain clear technical documentation for architecture, services, event flows, pipelines, AI agents, and key decisions.

Skills

C#

.NET

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Architectural leadership

AI-assisted development

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Blazor

MudBlazor

PostgreSQL

AWS

Lambda

ECS

EC2

CI/CD

Job description

Broadridge is seeking a Lead .Net Software Engineer to shape the technical direction, architecture, standards, and delivery of our core platform. This hands-on leadership role combines software depth with pragmatic architectural judgement and mentoring across teams.

You will guide design across microservices, APIs, event flows, BFFs, and frontend components in an event-driven environment, while advancing AI-assisted development and governance of AI agents and workflows.