[Hiring] Senior Tech Lead .NET @CI&T

Role Description

We are looking for a Tech Lead (.NET) to guide our engineering team, driving the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of complex back-end software solutions. In this role, you will balance strategic technical leadership with hands-on guidance, working closely with a multicultural team spread across Brazil, Colombia, the UK, and the USA. All communication is conducted in English.

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Define and evolve the technical direction, architecture, and design patterns for back-end services using C#, ADO.NET, and SQL Server.
• API Governance: Oversee the implementation, evolution, and standardization of SOAP and REST APIs, ensuring robust versioning, security, and best practices.
• Quality & Reliability: Guarantee system reliability and scalability by establishing standards for testing (unit/integration), monitoring, and root-cause analysis for complex production issues.
• Mentorship & Team Growth: Lead code reviews, mentor senior and junior engineers, and foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.
• System Integration: Oversee the seamless integration of various legacy and modern systems, ensuring high performance and decoupling where necessary.
• DevOps & CI/CD Strategy: Drive the optimization of CI/CD workflows and automated pipelines to enhance development velocity and deployment safety.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, stakeholders, and cross-border teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Proven Leadership: Experience acting as a Tech Lead, Team Lead, or Principal Engineer in a production environment.
• Expert .NET Ecosystem: Deep, hands-on experience with .NET Framework and .NET Core.
• Data Layer Mastery: Solid understanding of ADO.NET and SQL Server, with a proven track record in database design, optimization, and performance tuning at scale.
• Integration Expertise: Strong experience designing and maintaining SOAP and RESTful web services, including proficiency in XML serialization/deserialization.
• Architectural Acumen: Mastery of software design patterns, clean architecture, and modern distributed system design.
• Communication: Exceptional communication and stakeholders-management skills, with resilience in fast-paced, multicultural environments.
• Language: Advanced/Fluent English proficiency.

Requirements

• Soft Skills:
• Strategic Ownership: A proactive mindset focused on driving architectural alignment and continuous engineering improvement.
• Bridge Builder: Ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
• Empathetic Leadership: A collaborative leader who empowers the team, fosters psychological safety, and values shared success.
• Adaptability: Comfort leading through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving business requirements.
• Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Cloud platform expertise, preferably Azure.
• Familiarity with specification-driven development and agentic approaches to software development.
• Experience leading teams within Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Benefits

• Health and dental insurance
• Meal and food allowance
• Childcare assistance
• Extended paternity leave
• Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass
• Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR)
• Life insurance
• Continuous learning platform (CI&T University)
• Discount club
• Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being
• Pregnancy and responsible parenting course
• Partnerships with online learning platforms
• Language learning platform
• And many more!

More details about our benefits here: https://ciandt.com/br/pt-br/carreiras