Software Technical Lead - Riyadh - Onsite

Role Overview

We are currently looking for a Technical Lead who will be the single technical authority for the entire engagement, responsible for all architecture decisions, code quality, release governance, and technical risk management across both the Correspondence System and the Archiving System. This person must be equally comfortable leading the development of modern .NET Core + Angular applications and maintaining a legacy .NET Web Forms system that must remain fully operational throughout the contract, with no defined decommission date.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all technical decisions across both systems
• Manage the dual-system operation of the Correspondence System: the legacy ASP.NET WebForms system
  
  

and the new .NET Core + Angular system must run simultaneously and be fully supported

• Own and govern the DevOps CI/CD pipeline no deployment to production proceeds without technical
  
  

sign-off

• Lead the planned migration from stored procedures to Entity Framework ORM
• Chair weekly technical review meetings; produce and own Go/No-Go decisions for every production release
• Mentor and code-review the full development team; define and enforce coding standards
• Ensure NCA cybersecurity controls and Secure SDLC principles are embedded in every sprint and release
• Maintain up-to-date system architecture documentation for both systems throughout the contract
• Coordinate with the DBA on database architecture and the EF migration
• Oversee integration points between the two systems, and with the Client's Identity Server and external government services
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Fluent Arabic Speaker is a Must.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 9+ years of professional experience in software system development, with at least 3 years in a technical
  
  

leadership role

• Demonstrable experience leading Agile/Scrum development teams
• Experience with code quality governance, code review processes, and technical debt management
• Experience maintaining legacy systems alongside active development not just greenfield work
  
  

Required Technical Skills

• .NET Core expert-level back-end development; this is the primary platform
• ASP.NET WebForms must be competent to lead maintenance and support of legacy correspondence
  
  

system; familiarity with WebForms lifecycle, state management, and common patterns

• Angular (latest LTS) front-end for both systems; LTS upgrade management is a contractual obligation
• SQL Server (T-SQL) and Oracle (PL/SQL) dual database environment; must understand both
• Entity Framework Core ORM migration design; experience migrating complex stored procedure logic to
  
  

EF is essential

• Azure DevOps or equivalent CI/CD pipeline ownership, build automation, release management
• AppDynamics or equivalent APM performance monitoring strategy, alert configuration, capacity planning
• Identity Server / OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 SSO + MFA architecture design and oversight
• RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) design and implementation patterns
• Secure SDLC and OWASP Top 10 integrating security controls into the development process
• Git branching strategy governance (Git Flow or trunk-based), merge request oversight
• Agile tooling (Azure Boards, Jira, or equivalent)