Senior Lead Associate-Engineering

Davies; India; Remote; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Davies is hiring a Senior Lead Associate-Engineering to drive engineering excellence by delivering high-quality software using .NET, C#, React, and Azure. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, modern architectures, and Agile delivery to power Davies’ technology estate.

You will mentor teams, promote best practices, and influence patterns and tooling across squads. You will work with cross-functional teams to meet strategic goals while advancing cloud-native solutions and secure,

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of cloud-native applications aligned to strategic technologies.
• Write clean, secure code following SOLID principles and OWASP guidelines.
• Develop microservices, containerised applications, and event-driven components.
• Implement automated testing approaches including TDD and CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Support SRE practices such as observability, resilience engineering, and performance tuning.
• Coach and mentor developers across levels in technical design and coding practices.
• Contribute to shaping engineering frameworks, patterns, and internal standards.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and capability development.

Skills

C# & .NET

React

Azure

Microservices

SQL Server

TDD / Automated testing

CI/CD / DevOps

Security / OWASP

Tools

Terraform

Entity Framework

Job description

Senior Lead Associate-Engineering

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Home India

Reporting To: Vinay Supekar

Description

The Senior Lead Associate -.NET 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 -.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.
• Act as a technical role model for the engineering organisation, promoting autonomy, self‑management, and maturity within squads.
• Coach and mentor developers at all levels, providing guidance on technical design, coding practices, and problem‑solving.
• Contribute to shaping engineering frameworks, patterns, and internal best‑practice standards.
• Support engineering recruitment, onboarding, and capability development.

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.