Cogniphi Technologies - Technical Lead - .Net Development

Company Description

Cogniphi Technologies is a visionary team focused on leading businesses into a transformative digital future.

Our cognitive suite AIVI (Artificial Intelligence Vision) brings the power of Vision Intelligence to sectors like Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, and Surveillance.

AIVI utilizes spatial computing, machine learning, pattern recognition, anomaly detection, and computer vision to deliver real-life solutions.

We have a proven track record of revenue generation and expertise in developing large-scale solutions.

Experience : 10 - 12 years.

Job Location : Trivandrum, Kerala.

About The Role

Technical Lead to take ownership of support, delivery, and technical oversight for our established .NET + Angular SaaS platform and its mobile application.

This is not a greenfield development role.

Instead, it focuses on stability, proactive issue resolution, continuous improvement, and process adherence in a production environment.

The role involves 30% coding and 70% leadership activities, including support, team coordination, prioritization, mentoring, delivery tracking, and problem management.

Absolute Must Skills

Support Ownership & Problem Management :

• The core of the role is ensuring platform stabilityso the candidate must have proven experience in handling production issues, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing durable fixes within a live SaaS environment.
  
  

Delivery & Prioritization Skills

• Since this candidate is responsible for coordinating fixes, enhancements, and team output, they must excel at delivery planning, task prioritization, and cross-team coordination (especially with QA and Product).
  
  

Legacy Codebase Proficiency

• The candidate should be fully comfortable working in and leading teams around legacy .NET and Angular codebasesthis includes being confident in debugging, hot fixing, and understanding undocumented features.
  
  

Process, Compliance & Monitoring Discipline

• Strong understanding and execution of process compliance, technical standards, and change control.
• They must also be comfortable with monitoring tools to ensure system observability and response readiness.
  
  

Mentorship & Team Guidance

• Ability to mentor, review, and guide developers in improving the codebase and adhering to support and delivery best practices.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Lead support and delivery planning, ensuring that issues, bug fixes, and improvements are properly prioritized and delivered on schedule.
• Own the problem and change management lifecyclefrom root cause analysis to implementation and communication.
• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and improvement areas across the platform and team practices.
• Maintain a support-first mindset with a focus on production stability, user impact, and SLA adherence.
• Coordinate and validate code reviews, hotfixes, and incremental refactors to improve long-term maintainability.
• Mentor developers on legacy code understanding, support practices, and development discipline.
• Monitor system health and key metrics in collaboration with DevOps; respond to and learn from incidents.
• Enforce technical and process compliance, ensuring code and practices align with agreed standards and organizational policies.
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation for recurring issues, fixes, system behavior, and support workflows.
• Drive consistent process compliance in delivery, support response, and engineering communication.
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

Legacy Tech Stack Expertise :

• Hands-on experience with .NET (Framework/Core), C#, Angular (8+), and SQL Server.
• Strong debugging skills and the ability to navigate and stabilize complex legacy systems.
  
  

Support, Delivery & Operations Ownership

• Proven ability to prioritize and manage delivery of fixes and enhancements in a live product.
• Experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and implementing durable fixes.
• Skilled in problem managementnot just fixing issues, but improving system resilience.
  
  

Proactive Problem Solver & Change Manager

• Self-driven and proactive in spotting inefficiencies or risk areas before they become problems.
• Experienced in managing change carefully in legacy systems to avoid regressions.
  
  

Monitoring, Validation & Compliance

• Comfortable working with monitoring tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, ELK, Sentry) to track uptime and incidents.
• Capable of validating fixes and patches across environments before production release.
• Ensures technical and process compliance, working with QA and DevOps as needed.
  
  

Mentorship & Team Coordination

• Strong mentorship skillshelping developers grow while guiding them in legacy best practices.
• Experience leading cross-functional collaboration between Product, QA, DevOps, and Support teams.
• Excellent communication, conflict resolution, and prioritization skills.
  
  

Nice To Have

• Domain experience in fleet management, transportation, or vehicle tracking SaaS.
• Familiarity with mobile technologies (Android / IOS mobile app support).
• Understanding of cloud migration or modernization initiatives (not required to drive architecture).
  
  

(ref:hirist.tech)