Azure Application Development Lead :: Houston, Texas (onsite)

Azure Application Development Lead
Houston, Texas (onsite)

Experience: 8–12 years in application development, Support including 4+ years on Microsoft Azure and 2+ years in technical leadership

Role Overview

We are seeking an Azure Application Development Lead to lead the design, development, Support, modernization, and delivery of enterprise applications on Microsoft Azure. The role combines hands-on engineering, architecture ownership, team leadership, and close collaboration with customer stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has strong expertise in .NET, cloud-native development, APIs, Azure services, and DevOps, with a proven ability to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities

•          Lead a development team through requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.

•          Design and develop applications using C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET, REST APIs, and Azure services.

•          Define application architecture, service boundaries, integration patterns, and technical standards.

•          Lead application modernization, including migration of existing applications to Azure.

•          Select appropriate Azure services, balancing functionality, security, availability, performance, and cost.

•          Implement asynchronous processing and event-driven integration using Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, or Event Hubs.

•          Establish CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure as code using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

•          Implement identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, and Azure Key Vault.

•          Conduct code reviews, mentor developers, and manage technical debt.

•          Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, QA teams, and platform engineers to deliver agreed outcomes.

•          Own technical estimates, identify delivery risks, and communicate progress and dependencies.

•          Implement application monitoring, troubleshoot production issues, and lead root cause analysis.

•          Maintain architecture documentation, deployment procedures, and operational handover materials.

Required Skills and Experience

•          Strong hands-on experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, and REST API development.

•          Experience developing and deploying applications using Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure API Management.

•          Proficiency with Azure SQL Database or SQL Server, including data modeling and query optimization.

•          Experience with Azure Storage and messaging services such as Azure Service Bus.

•          Solid understanding of microservices, distributed systems, resilience patterns, and asynchronous processing.

•          Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub, Git workflows, CI/CD, and automated deployments.

•          Working knowledge of infrastructure as code using Bicep or Terraform.

•          Experience implementing authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and Microsoft Entra ID.

•          Experience with Application Insights and Azure Monitor for application observability.

•          Strong knowledge of unit testing, integration testing, secure coding, and code quality practices.

•          Proven experience leading developers and owning technical delivery.

•          Strong communication, problem-solving, and customer stakeholder management skills.