Azure Lead AppDev Engineer
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 72204, USA
Listed on 2026-06-27
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Azure, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Azure Lead App Dev Engineer
This is a fully remote position. The Lead App Dev Engineer serves as the senior technical execution leader within the client Modernization Program. This role is accountable for translating the Azure Application Development Architect's modernization strategy into high-quality engineering delivery across both legacy operational support and cloud-native transformation initiatives.
The Lead App Dev Engineer drives the technical implementation of refactoring monolithic legacy applications into scalable, secure, Azure-native solutions. This position establishes engineering rigor across development practices, Dev Ops discipline, data modernization, resiliency implementation, and release quality. The role ensures modernization efforts are not isolated feature upgrades but cohesive, platform-level improvements aligned to enterprise architecture standards.
This position acts as the engineering authority beneath the Architect — guiding technical decisions, mentoring engineers, enforcing standards, and ensuring that modernization work improves scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost efficiency across the client application ecosystem.
Responsibilities- Lead day-to-day engineering execution across modernization and operations work streams, ensuring alignment to program architecture standards.
- Translate modernization blueprints into sprint-level engineering designs, tasks, and deliverables.
- Lead refactoring of legacy applications 8+ patterns, including modularization and API-first modernization.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices: clean code, code reviews, branching strategy, and release readiness controls.
- Drive modernization of data access patterns (EF Core adoption, stored procedure rationalization, query optimization) in collaboration with DBA.
- Partner with the Azure App Dev Systems Engineer to ensure environment readiness, deployment consistency, monitoring, and cost optimization.
- Collaborate with QA to ensure automated testing coverage, regression protection, and quality gates in CI/CD.
- Contribute to resiliency and disaster recovery enhancements (design input, implementation support, validation readiness).
- Mentor Senior App Dev Engineers and App Dev Engineers; provide coaching, feedback, and technical guidance.
- Identify technical risks and technical debt; propose and execute mitigation plans.
- Ensure resiliency, observability, and DR patterns are implemented consistently.
- Develop or contribute to the technical backlog, epics and user stories in conjunction with the architect. May be asked to perform the technical product owner role.
- Other responsibilities as assigned by management.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of enterprise application engineering experience, including modernization/refactoring initiatives.
- Deep hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET Core,.NET 6–8, and REST API development.
- Strong experience with Azure PaaS application hosting (e.g., App Services) and cloud-native delivery practices.
- Strong experience with SQL Server and modern data access patterns (EF Core/ORM), performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and operating CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops preferred) and Git-based workflows.
- Experience leading engineering teams through delivery, including code reviews, estimation support, and execution oversight.
- Strong understanding of secure coding practices and authentication/authorization concepts (OAuth/OIDC, Azure AD concepts)
- Azure certifications (Developer Associate, Dev Ops Engineer, or Solutions Architect).
- Experience with Azure API Management, Azure Functions, event-driven integration, or distributed systems patterns.
- Experience implementing observability (Application Insights, Log Analytics, structured logging, tracing).
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React/Vue/Angular) supporting UI modernization.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and validation (backup/restore, failover, RTO/RPO requirements).
- Experience modernizing large-scale multi-tenant or multi-site platforms and implementing…
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