Senior Technical Lead
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Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh

Job Summary

JD for Sitecore Technical Lead

The Sitecore Technical Lead is a senior hands-on engineer with 8+ years of .NET experience, including 5+ years on Sitecore XP. The role leads a support pod day to day, owns the technical quality of fixes and enhancements, and is the first escalation point for L2 / L3 issues on the client Sitecore estates.

Sitecore 10.x Developer certification is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITY

  • Lead the pod's daily ticket flow in ServiceNow (Kanban) and 2-week enhancement sprints in Jira with the client product owner.
  • Act as L3 escalation for incidents, publishing failures, integration errors and performance issues. Lead fixes on the bridge for critical outages.
  • Break down stories into tasks, give effort estimates and flag work that crosses the 5-day AMS boundary.
  • Design and build SXA components, templates and renderings on the consolidated component library (about 200 components).
  • Perform code and design reviews, enforce coding standards and keep serialization (SCS / Unicorn / TDS) clean.
  • Own release readiness: deployment runbooks, smoke tests, rollback plans and adherence to business code freezes.
  • Write RCA for repeat and major incidents and update runbooks and the known error database.
  • Coach developers, run knowledge sharing and keep a trained backup for every critical skill.
  • Work with the Solution Lead on upgrades, patching, vulnerability fixes and modernization readiness.

Skill Requirements

MUST-HAVE SKILLS

  • Strong Sitecore XP 10.x and SXA experience, including multi-site, multi-language setups.
  • Good knowledge of Sitecore architecture, object model, pipelines, security model, publishing and caching.
  • C#, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, REST and GraphQL APIs.
  • Content Search with Solr, and exposure to Coveo.
  • Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) for reports, bulk operations and automation.
  • Containerised Sitecore (Docker / AKS) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
  • Delivered at least two enterprise Sitecore implementations as Lead or Senior Developer.
  • Working knowledge of ITIL incident, problem and change management.

 

GOOD TO HAVE

  • Experience with Aprimo DAM connector, Brightcove, SFMC, Pardot or OneTrust integrations.
  • Exposure to Next.js / headless and SitecoreAI (XM Cloud).
  • Basic knowledge of Akamai CDN, DNS and SSL.
  • Experience supporting US clients from an offshore model, including shift handovers.

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At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 230,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.