.NET Technical Lead Solution Architect

**Overview**

We are seeking an experienced **.NET Technical Lead / Solution Architect** to provide technical leadership and architectural oversight across delivery teams within the Kiwibank SAE programme. This role plays a critical part in shaping, governing, and delivering high-quality banking solutions using a modern product engineering approach.

You will work closely with client stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise and cloud-native architecture standards.

**Key Responsibilities**

• Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across multiple .NET delivery teams.
• Drive delivery excellence, ensuring solutions meet quality, performance, and security standards.
• Partner with client stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into robust technical designs.
• Guide teams in designing and building cloud-native, microservices-based solutions.
• Establish and promote best practices in API design, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Mentor and motivate engineers, fostering a high-performing, agile engineering culture.
• Support modernisation initiatives, including legacy .NET application uplift and cloud migration.

**Core Skills & Experience**

• Strong hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET, and .NET Core.
• Proven experience designing and building REST APIs using a contract-first approach (OpenAPI / Swagger).
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience implementing application observability, including logging, monitoring, and metrics.
• Cloud experience in Azure or AWS, with strong CI/CD practices.
• Expertise in unit, component, and integration testing, including TDD techniques.
• Strong agile delivery leadership skills with the ability to inspire and lead engineering teams.

**Cloud & Platform Experience**

**Azure Cloud**, including

• App Services
• Azure Functions
• Azure DevOps
• API design and system integration in complex enterprise environments.

**Preferred Experience**

• Experience working in the banking or financial services domain.
• Exposure to large-scale enterprise transformation or regulated environments.

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