Associate Principal Engineer, Dotnet AI Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Offer proactive design leadership and guidance to various engineering teams

• Collaborate with engineering leaders and Product managers

• Oversee the architectural design of multi-tiered products and data applications across projects

• Manage the application portfolio to address technology debt and reduce risks

• Convert client business use cases and technical requirements into technical designs

• Align architectural choices with requirements and convey them to developers

• Identify and assess solution options to select the most suitable for client needs

• Establish guidelines and benchmarks for non-functional requirements during implementation

• Draft and review architecture and high-level design documentation

• Evaluate architecture and design for extensibility, scalability, security, design patterns, user experience, and non-functional requirements

• Formulate comprehensive solutions for both functional and non-functional requirements and define technologies, patterns, and frameworks

• Leverage technology integration insights across projects

• Address code and review issues through thorough root-cause analysis

• Execute proof-of-concept implementations to verify designs and technologies

⛳️ Requirements

• 11+ years of overall experience

• Extensive experience with architecture and development in C#, .NET Core, .NET Framework, Entity Framework, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and unit testing

• Proven experience in designing full-stack solutions for multi-tiered modern software and data applications

• Strong practical software engineering background and enthusiasm for innovation

• Knowledge of software architecture and refactoring patterns

• Familiarity with front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and React

• Understanding of object-oriented programming, microservices architecture, REST, and service-oriented architecture

• Experience with Azure DevOps or CI/CD tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, PowerShell, NPM, Terraform, ARM, and IIS

• Hands-on experience with databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL

• Comprehension of design patterns, concurrent design, and multithreading

• Strong troubleshooting capabilities across various technologies and environments

• Experience architecting AI-related solutions utilizing AI-assisted coding tools like Claude

• Exposure to solutions involving AI integration

• Familiarity with MCP, prompt/context engineering, model families, and LLM risks and ethical considerations

• Experience designing and delivering highly available cloud architectures on Azure/AWS using PaaS, IaaS, and containerized Docker/Kubernetes workloads

• Experience in designing cloud data lakes, data warehouses, and data processing solutions

• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, and SRE best practices

• Advanced problem-solving experience leading teams in diagnosing and troubleshooting complex project challenges

• Strong modeling skills for effectively representing complex concepts graphically

• Capacity to guide engineering teams and collaborate with data/product stakeholders in an agile environment

• Ability to balance architectural integrity with constraints and business objectives

• Experience in developing technology roadmaps and planning solution evolution, technology choices, and risk management

• Awareness of security engineering best practices

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills

• Willingness to learn and adopt new technologies

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work

• Dynamic and non-hierarchical work culture

• Mentoring and technology learning opportunities