Group Technical Architect

HCL Technologies Sweden AB; Göteborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

HCL Technologies Sweden AB in Gothenburg seeks a Group Technical Architect to lead enterprise .NET architectures and modernization programs. You will guide engineering teams, set standards for APIs, security, logging and deployment, and partner with stakeholders across delivery teams.

The role demands 13+ years of software engineering experience, strong leadership, and deep expertise in .NET, cloud, and DevOps practices. On-site work in Gothenburg with global delivery collaboration is expected.

Qualifications

• 13+ years in software engineering with strong enterprise .NET design and delivery.
• Proven track record as solution, application or technical architect on complex programmes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant platform, cloud, architecture or DevOps certifications advantageous, not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Own high-level and detailed architecture for complex .NET applications, APIs, integrations and modernization initiatives.
• Provide hands-on architectural direction to development, QA, DevOps, security and support teams.
• Define resiliency patterns, security considerations, performance targets and observability.
• Engage with business, product, security, infrastructure and vendor stakeholders.
• Maintain architecture artifacts, decisions, risks and roadmaps.
• Build and evolve .NET services, APIs and background workers with clean separation of concerns.

Skills

C#

modern .NET

ASP.NET Core

Web API

dependency injection

async/concurrency

performance tuning

architecture

security

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Azure cloud

containers

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Career Opportunities: Group Technical Architect (172888)

Requisition ID172888-Posted10/15/2026

.NET ARCHITECT

Detailed Job Description Location

Gothenburg

ROLE BAND TECH STACK EXPERIENCE TYPE

.Net Architect E4 .NET 18+ Years Full-time

Role Purpose

Provide end-to-end technical leadership for enterprise solutions on the .NET platform: translating business and non-functional requirements into scalable, secure and resilient architectures, and guiding engineering teams through implementation, modernization and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Own high-level and detailed architecture for complex .NET applications, APIs, integrations and modernization initiatives.
• Convert functional and non-functional requirements into blueprints, component designs, interface contracts and implementation guidance.
• Select appropriate architecture patterns and assess trade-offs across scalability, performance, security, cost and maintainability.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards, approved platforms, reusable patterns and target-state roadmaps.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Give hands-on architectural direction to development, QA, DevOps, security and support teams.
• Set coding, API, integration, logging, configuration, testing and deployment standards.
• Run architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, technical risk assessments and PoC evaluations.

Security, Reliability & Performance

• Embed secure-by-design across identity, authorization, secrets, data protection and interface security.
• Define resiliency patterns — retry, timeout, failover, HA and DR — plus performance and capacity targets.
• Ensure observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerting.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitate technical discovery with business, product, security, infrastructure and vendor stakeholders.
• Communicate complex decisions clearly to engineering and leadership audiences.
• Maintain architecture artifacts, decision records, risk logs and technical roadmaps.

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

• 13+ years in software engineering, with strong enterprise .NET design and delivery experience.
• Proven track record as solution, application or technical architect on complex programmes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant platform, cloud, architecture or DevOps certifications advantageous, not mandatory.

Leadership & Behavioural

• Architecture ownership with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset.
• Structured problem solving and sound judgement under ambiguity.
• Clear communication and influence across technical and business stakeholders.
• Coaching mindset and strong stakeholder management.

Location-Specific Expectations

• Work on site with customer stakeholders in Gothenburg while coordinating with global delivery teams.
• Participate in in-person and virtual workshops, design reviews and governance forums.
• Strong cross-cultural communication and disciplined follow-through across time zones.

Key Deliverables & Success Measures

• Approved, traceable, implementation-ready architecture and design artifacts.
• Documented decisions, standards, risks, assumptions and mitigations.
• Solutions meeting agreed security, performance, reliability and operational readiness.
• Reduced technical risk via early validation, reusable patterns and automation.
• Timely resolution of blockers; improved engineering consistency and code quality.