Job Summary
.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.
Key Responsibilities
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.