Senior Technical Lead
HCLTech · Gothenburg, Sweden
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Senior Technical Lead Goteborg, Västra Götalands län Job Summary
ROLE
BAND
TECH STACK
EXPERIENCE
TYPE
.Net Lead
E2.2
.NET
10+ Years
Full-time
Role Purpose
Lead the design, development and delivery of .NET solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Design & Delivery
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Own detailed design for .NET components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture.
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Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria.
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Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team.
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Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations. Team Leadership
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Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach.
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Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing.
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Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the .NET skill set. Quality & Operations
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Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team.
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Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps.
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Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds. Collaboration & Governance
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Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle.
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Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management.
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Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team.
Key Responsibilities
Technology Focus — .NET
- Build and evolve .NET services, Web APIs and background workers with clean separation of concerns.
- Apply modern .NET features, configuration, logging and dependency injection consistently across the codebase.
- Modernize legacy .NET Framework components towards modern .NET, containers and cloud-ready hosting.
Required Technical Competencies
Core Skills
C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, Web API, dependency injection, async/concurrency, performance tuning.
Design & Architecture
Enterprise application architecture, SOLID, design patterns, DDD, microservices, event-driven design, API management.
Data & Integration
Relational data design, Entity Framework, transactions, consistency, caching; REST APIs, messaging, event streaming.
Platform & DevOps
Azure or equivalent cloud, containers and orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, automated quality gates, secure supply chain.
Quality & Operations
Unit, integration, performance and resiliency testing; production readiness, monitoring, RCA.
Experience & Qualifications
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10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong .NET expertise.
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Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles.
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.
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Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory. Leadership & Behavioural
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Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes.
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Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions.
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Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
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Coaching mindset and collaborative working style. Location-Specific Expectations
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Work on site with customer stakeholders in Gothenburg while coordinating with global delivery teams.
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Participate in in-person and virtual workshops, design reviews and governance forums.
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Strong cross-cultural communication and disciplined follow-through across time zones. Key Deliverables & Success Measures
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Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads.
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High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines.
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Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover.
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Improved team capability, engineering consistency and reusable assets.
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Timely escalation and resolution of technical risks and blockers.
Skill Requirements
Other Requirements
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