Onsite Hands-on Tech Lead: .NET & Azure, APIs

Smart4 Cloud Limited; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart4 Cloud Limited is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to guide a modern digital platform running on Microsoft .NET and Azure. You will own technical direction, APIs, integrations and platform design while mentoring developers, aligning with engineering standards and security controls.

You will work with developers, application owners, QA, DevOps and business stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure and observable solutions, drive CI/CD improvements and reduce key-person dependency.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Technical Lead with .NET and Azure expertise.
• Experience designing APIs and integration solutions.
• Strong mentoring and coaching ability.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and implementation guidance across platform components.
• Own and guide technical direction, design decisions and engineering standards.
• Provide hands-on support to development teams where required.
• Guide developers on design patterns, tools, frameworks and implementation approaches.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure and supportable.
• Promote SDLC standards and engineering best practices.
• Drive CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Secure coding

Observability

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

API design tools

Job description

Smart4 Cloud Limited is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to guide a modern digital platform running on Microsoft .NET and Azure. You will own technical direction, APIs, integrations and platform design while mentoring developers, aligning with engineering standards and security controls.

You will work with developers, application owners, QA, DevOps and business stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure and observable solutions, drive CI/CD improvements and reduce key-person dependency.