Key Responsibilities

- Own the overall technical architecture of the Legacy Portal/Existing Portal "Education Domain".

- Design scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise applications.

- Define solution architecture, application design standards, and development best practices.

- Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance throughout the software development lifecycle.

- Analyze existing applications and recommend modernization strategies.

- Drive migration initiatives from .NET Framework to .NET Core/.NET 8 where appropriate.

- Design and develop enterprise applications using ASP.NET Core and modern .NET technologies.

- Design RESTful APIs and integration solutions for internal and external systems.

- Ensure application security, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

- Review database design, data models, stored procedures, and SQL performance.

- Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

- Mentor developers and technical leads on architecture, coding standards, and best practices.

- Support production issues, root cause analysis, and technical troubleshooting.

- Prepare architecture diagrams, solution documents, technical specifications, and design documentation.

- Define reusable frameworks, shared components, and coding standards.

- Work closely with DevOps teams to support CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.

- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and organizational standards.

Required Technical Skills

Application Development





- 10+ years of software development experience.

- 3+ years as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect.

- Strong expertise in

C#

,

.NET Framework

,

.NET Core

, and

.NET 8

.

- Extensive experience with

ASP.NET MVC

,

ASP.NET Core MVC

,

ASP.NET Core Web API

, and Web Forms (preferred).

- Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.

- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles.

- Experience with asynchronous programming (async/await) and multithreading.

- Experience with LINQ and up-to-date C# language features.

Architecture & Design

- Enterprise Application Architecture

- Clean Architecture

- Layered Architecture

- SOLID Principles

- Design Patterns

- Dependency Injection (DI)

- Middleware pipeline design

- Repository and Unit of Work patterns

- API-first architecture

- Modular application design

Database

- SQL Server

- Entity Framework

- Entity Framework Core

- ADO.NET

- Database design

- Stored Procedures

- Query optimization

- Indexing

- Performance tuning

Integration

- REST APIs

- SOAP Services

- JSON/XML

- Third-party system integrations

- Authentication providers

- API versioning

- Swagger/OpenAPI

Security

- Authentication & Authorization

- JWT

- OAuth2

- OpenID Connect

- Azure Active Directory

- Secure coding practices

- OWASP Top 10 awareness

DevOps & Tools

- Azure DevOps

- Git

- CI/CD pipelines

- IIS

- NuGet Package Management

- Application deployment and release management

📌 Solution Architect – Legacy Portal (.NET) (Canada)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Canada