Lead Associate - Engineering

Davies; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Davies in Pune is seeking a Lead Associate - Engineering to design, develop, and deliver cloud-native software solutions. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across modern practices, drive code quality, and mentor teams across the Microsoft stack including .NET, C#, and front-end tech.

The role emphasizes architecture, secure coding, and CI/CD discipline within an Agile context, backed by strong cloud experience and a passion for engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET (or Python).
• Modern front-end experience with React, Angular or Vue.
• Advanced experience with Azure (or AWS/GCP equivalents).
• Strong expertise in microservices, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design.
• Strong SQL Server and Entity Framework capabilities.
• Test-driven development and automated testing practices.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
• Secure coding practices and familiarity with OWASP principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of high-quality, cloud-native applications aligned to strategic technologies.
• Write clean, maintainable, secure code following SOLID principles, design patterns, and OWASP guidelines.
• Develop microservices, containerised applications, and event-driven components.
• Implement automated testing approaches including TDD, integration testing, and CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Support SRE practices such as observability, resilience engineering, and performance tuning.

Skills

C# & .NET

Python

React

Angular

Vue

Azure

Microservices

Event-driven

Domain-Driven Design

SQL Server

Entity Framework

TDD

CI/CD

DevOps

OWASP

Secure coding

Azure DevOps

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Lead Associate - Engineering

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Reporting To: Abhinav Gupta

Description

The Lead Associate - Engineering is a senior technical authority within the engineering organisation, responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high‑quality software solutions that power Davies’ UK&I technology estate. The role provides hands‑on technical leadership across modern engineering practices, cloud‑native architectures, and Agile delivery environments, ensuring that engineering squads consistently deliver robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable software. Acting as a role model for engineering excellence, the Lead Associate - AI / .NET mentors developers at all levels, promotes best practice, and drives continuous improvement in code quality, patterns, tooling, and development workflows. The role is responsible for solving complex technical problems, setting engineering direction, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to ensure solutions meet strategic and operational objectives. This role is ideal for a highly skilled, T‑shaped engineer with deep specialism in one or more areas (back‑end, front‑end, cloud, DevOps) and broad exposure across the modern Microsoft‑centric stack including .NET, C#, React/TypeScript, Azure, Terraform, and SQL Server.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of high‑quality, cloud‑native applications aligned to strategic technologies.
• Write clean, maintainable, secure code following SOLID principles, design patterns, and OWASP guidelines.
• Develop microservices, containerised applications, and event‑driven components.
• Implement automated testing approaches including TDD, integration testing, and CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Support SRE (site reliability engineering) practices such as observability, resilience engineering, and performance tuning.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET (or Python).
• Modern front‑end experience with React, Angular, or Vue.
• Advanced experience with Azure (or AWS/GCP equivalents).
• Strong expertise in microservices, event‑driven architecture, and Domain‑Driven Design.
• Strong SQL Server and Entity Framework capabilities.
• Test‑driven development and automated test practices.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
• Secure coding practices and familiarity with OWASP principles.