Principal Tech Lead - Fullstack

Position Overview

A leading organization is seeking an experienced Principal Tech Lead – Full Stack to serve as the senior technical authority across its technology function. This role blends deep hands-on engineering expertise with strategic leadership to define architecture, guide delivery, and ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing web applications. The successful candidate will shape enterprise technology direction across cloud platforms, backend and frontend development, and customer experience systems, while influencing multiple product and platform teams.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Act as the primary technical authority across cloud, backend, frontend, database, and CRM platforms.
• Define and evolve enterprise architecture to ensure scalability, resilience, performance, and maintainability.
• Drive adoption of modern architectural approaches, including cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and performance optimization initiatives.
• Guide technology selection, proof-of-concept initiatives, and long-term platform strategy.

Engineering Excellence

• Champion modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, DevOps automation, observability, and test-driven development.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers, cultivating a high-performance and learning-oriented engineering culture.
• Partner with delivery teams to resolve complex technical issues and ensure successful execution.
• Establish and uphold code quality standards, review frameworks, and technical governance processes.

Strategic & Cross-Functional Impact

• Collaborate with Product and Delivery leaders to align technical strategy with business objectives.
• Influence technology roadmaps in alignment with enterprise and cloud strategies.
• Contribute to capacity planning, cost optimization, and security compliance within cloud environments.
• Represent engineering in senior leadership discussions, providing insight to inform strategic decisions.

Core Technology Environment

Backend:

• .NET 6 / C#
• Web API
• Entity Framework Core

Frontend:

• ReactJS
• TypeScript
• Redux / Context API

CRM & Experience Platforms:

• Salesforce Commerce Cloud / Experience Cloud
• Apex
• Lightning Web Components

Cloud & Infrastructure:

• Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, AKS, Azure SQL, Storage, Event Grid, Service Bus)

Databases:

• Microsoft SQL Server
• Azure SQL
• Cosmos DB (preferred)

DevOps & Tooling:

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• Terraform / Bicep
• Go, Python
• Docker, Kubernetes

Architecture Patterns:

• Microservices
• Domain-Driven Design
• Event-Driven Systems
• RESTful & GraphQL APIs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a principal or senior technical leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and scaling complex, distributed web applications in Microsoft Azure environments.
• Strong expertise in the .NET ecosystem, modern JavaScript frameworks, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Solid understanding of Salesforce Commerce Cloud and/or Experience Cloud, including custom development using Apex and Lightning Web Components.
• Advanced experience in SQL and NoSQL database design, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams within agile delivery environments.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and executive-level presentation skills.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience leading large-scale modernization programs, including legacy-to-cloud migrations and monolith-to-microservices transformations.
• Hands-on coding capability with a strong commitment to engineering craftsmanship and quality.
• Passion for mentoring, innovation, and solving complex technical challenges.
• Exposure to data engineering pipelines, analytics platforms, or AI/ML integrations is advantageous.

This role is ideal for a senior technology leader who combines architectural vision, engineering depth, and strategic influence to drive enterprise-scale digital platforms forward.

Originally posted on Himalayas