Job Summary
PRAGATI .NET ARCHITECT Detailed Job Description Location Pan India ROLE BAND TECH STACK EXPERIENCE TYPE .Net Architect E3.2 .NET 13+ 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 • Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones. • Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads. • Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness r
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
• Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones.
• Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads.
• Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness reviews.
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.