COTS Lead - .NET

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Role Purpose

Lead the design, development and delivery of COTS solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers' day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Design & Delivery:

• Own detailed design for COTS components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture.
• Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria.
• Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team.
• Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations.

Team Leadership:

• Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach.
• Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing.
• Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the COTS skill set.

Quality & Operations:

• Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team.
• Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps.
• Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds.

Collaboration & Governance:

• Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management.
• Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team.

Technology Focus — COTS Platform:

• Lead configuration, extension and integration of the COTS platform in line with product best practice.
• Drive fit-gap assessments and minimize custom code to protect upgradeability and total cost of ownership.
• Manage vendor engagement for defects, roadmap alignment, patches and version upgrades.

Required Technical Competencies:

• Core Skills: COTS product configuration, extension frameworks, upgrade paths and vendor solution capabilities.
• Design & Architecture: Fit-gap analysis, configuration-over-customization principles, extension design and integration architecture.
• Data & Integration: Product data models, migration and conversion, interface specifications, reporting and reconciliation.
• Platform & DevOps: Vendor release management, environment strategy, patching, licensing and deployment automation.
• Quality & Operations: Functional, regression and upgrade testing; defect management with vendor support and production readiness.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Software engineering with strong COTS expertise.
• Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory.