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As Technical Lead, you will be the senior .NET authority on a dedicated, cross-functional scrum team building a contemporary operational SaaS platform for K-12 education. The platform helps school divisions automate administrative workflows, manage information across their organization, and surface operational insight - which in practice means long-running, multi-step business processes, heavy integration between systems, and reporting that has to hold up under scrutiny from district administrators.

Your team operates as an embedded extension of the client's product and engineering organization, not as an external group receiving isolated tickets. It owns assigned product services end-to-end: analysis, planning, implementation, quality assurance, documentation, and release readiness. The client sets product direction and owns architecture and engineering standards; your team is accountable for converting prioritized objectives into production-ready functionality without needing day-to-day coordination. That means you will be working inside an established codebase and an established set of standards, influencing them through implementation plans and evidence rather than unilateral redesign.

This is a manager-level role. Alongside deep technical ownership, you will lead a team that includes embedded business analysis and QA capability - setting expectations, developing people, running sprint delivery, and representing the technical position directly to client stakeholders. Depth in C# and .NET Core is the primary bar for this role: you should be the person the team escalates to on runtime behaviour, async correctness, EF Core query performance, and service design.



The platform is moving from pilot deployments toward general availability, so decisions you make need to survive real multi-tenant load.

Key Responsibilities

Leading a cross-functional scrum team - developers, business analysis, and QA - accountable end-to-end for assigned product services and feature areas

Writing and reviewing production C# and .NET Core code daily, and setting the standard for what good looks like in the codebase

Working within the client's established architecture and engineering standards, and influencing them through implementation plans and evidence rather than unilateral decisions

Producing technical analysis and implementation plans for significant changes, ahead of development starting

Designing Temporal workflow implementations - activity boundaries, retry and compensation strategy, idempotency, and workflow versioning

Implementing event-driven integration against defined pub/sub contracts, and flagging where contracts need to change

Implementing authorization against OpenFGA policies and Keycloak-backed OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect flows in a multi-tenant context

Working across PostgreSQL transactional models and ClickHouse reporting data within the client's data architecture

Diagnosing and resolving performance issues across the .NET stack - EF Core query plans, connection pooling, async/await misuse, memory and allocation behaviour

Owning the team's sprint delivery - refinement, planning, review, and retrospective - without the client needing to act as delivery coordinator

Ensuring merge requests are small and reviewable, peer review is substantive, and CodeRabbit and pipeline feedback is addressed rather than waved through

Holding the team to a definition of done that includes requirements validation, automated test coverage, documentation, release readiness, and supportability

Owning post-release stabilization and defect resolution for recently delivered work

Escalating risks, dependencies, and missing business decisions early

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📌 Senior Technical Lead (.NET) (British Columbia)
🏢 Appnovation
📍 British Columbia