Lead .NET Developer

About This Role

Serve as a Lead .NET Developer for the Metropolitan Council, focusing on architecting, designing, and deploying complex .NET and Azure cloud-based solutions. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, ensuring best practices and adherence to coding standards.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Lead .NET Developer for enterprise-grade .NET applications and services
• Architect, design, prototype, develop, and deploy complex .NET and Azure cloud-based solutions
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, ensuring best practices and coding standards
• Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, business analysts, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Implement modern architecture patterns including Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Integrate .NET applications with third-party APIs, databases, and Azure cloud services
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and maintainability across multiple environments
• Lead code reviews, enforce development standards, and drive continuous quality improvement
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient deployment and release management
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in both production and development environments
• Ensure applications comply with security, data privacy, and accessibility requirements
• Contribute to long-term technical planning, architecture decisions, and technology selection
• Prepare technical documentation and lead knowledge transfer sessions

Requirements

• 15+ years of overall software development experience
• 5+ years in .NET application development and Microsoft technologies
• 5+ years as a Technical Team Lead, including mentoring junior developers
• 7+ years with Angular, React, or Blazor frameworks
• 5+ years developing and deploying applications in Azure cloud using CI/CD pipelines
• Proven leadership, communication, and collaboration skills on large-scale enterprise projects

Qualifications

• Degree in IT or related field
• At least 15 years of overall software development experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience translating functional requirements into technical designs collaboratively
• 8+ years with front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript)
• 3+ years with Azure services (Functions, App Services, Event Bus, etc.)
• 5+ years hands-on with API design, microservices, distributed systems, and Azure Application Performance Monitoring
• 10+ years writing automated unit tests
• 5+ years in database design/development with SQL Server/Azure SQL
• Experience working in hybrid telework/office environments
• Strong knowledge of SQL Server, Entity Framework, and performance analysis tools

Skills

* Required skills