Senior Application Engineering Lead

Summary

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, high school diploma (or equivalent) in combination with significant practical experience will be considered in lieu of degree. A minimum high school diploma or equivalent is required.

Responsibilities

• Act as a player-coach to lead the team. Review pull requests, contribute to architectural decisions, help diagnose production issues. Mentor and guide engineers on technical strategy and implementation. The team should see this person as a technical expert, not just a manager.
• Work closely with Product, other technology teams, Compliance, and Operations to provide best in class software design and delivery. Have a point of view and able explain clearly and present options when something doesn't make technical sense.
• Lead Scaled Agile delivery across a distributed team including offshore resources. Active participant and key point of contact in Agile ceremonies — PI planning, sprint execution, daily standups. Keeps things moving without micromanaging and encourages cross-team coordination.
• Support production stability of the application. When something breaks, be part of figuring out why and making sure it doesn't happen again. Demonstrate proactive problem resolution abilities and the ability to be a problem solver.
• Manage vendors and offshore partners against quality standards and delivery commitments. Coordinate resources and activities to achieve maximum productivity.
• Create Software Architecture documentation and adhere to Enterprise Standards.

Requirements

• Five or more years of application development experience, including at least 2 years leading projects and teams.
• Comfortable with C#/.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, REST API design, dependency injection, and service-oriented architecture; has recent hands-on experience
• Strong SQL Server skills — stored procedures, query performance, schema design. Multi-year experience managing development using one or more of the following: SQL Server, Stored Procedures, C#.NET, .NET Core, MVC and Entity Framework
• Angular 18+ fluency sufficient to meaningfully review component design, reactive forms, and TypeScript
• Full-stack credibility — able to move between backend and frontend without losing the thread. This codebase requires both
• Azure development — working knowledge of App Service, SQL Database, and Service Bus; cloud-native patterns, ADO, CI/CD pipelines
• Scaled Agile experience at the enterprise level and minimum 3 years’ experience with Agile Software development at the enterprise level
• Project and people leadership experience. Effective Communicator, both written and verbal. Able to interact with multiple stakeholders and levels of the organization.

Preferred Requirements

• Financial services background — broker-dealer, advisor platforms, or regulated financial systems such as banking, credit card or insurance domains.
• Microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, message queues (RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus)
• SonarQube or static code analysis experience
• Osaic is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and we hire the most qualified candidates without regard for age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, language differences, nationality or national origin, family or marital status, physical, mental, and developmental abilities (or the perception of a disability), genetic information, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, skin color, social or economic class, education, work and behavioral styles, political affiliation, military service, caste, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Osaic.
• Osaic does not consider applications from candidates who do not meet the minimum qualifications stated in the job posting.
• Osaic only accepts candidates from contracted recruiting firms and only for searches approved prior to submissions. Fees will not be paid for unsolicited submissions.