Technical Lead

Job Title/Role: Technical Lead  

Mode of hire: Full-Time 

Base Location: Guindy, Chennai 

Mode of work: Hybrid 

Shift Timing: General Shift (US time-zone overlap) 

Experience: 8+ Yrs 

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days

 

About the Role 

• We are seeking a Technical Lead to guide Carta sustainment delivery and act as the day-to-day manager for the development team.  

• This role co-leads the team alongside the Scrum Master / Business Analyst and combines hands-on technical leadership with people leadership for developers, release safety, architecture guidance, and technical risk reduction. 

• Carta is Access's enterprise document and workflow platform family, including CartaHR, CartaDC, and CartaAP.  

• CartaHR is a cloud-based HR document management system that centralizes employee records for fast, secure, and compliant access from anywhere.  

• The broader Carta codebase also powers document retrieval, scheduled processing, integrations, workflow automation, retention controls, and customer-specific deployments across the Carta product suite. 

• This team is focused on maintaining, stabilizing, and modernizing the existing codebase. No net-new product functionality is expected as part of this staffing model. 

  

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead technical planning for defect, maintenance, and modernization work across web, API, scheduled processing, integration, and data layers. 

• Act as the direct manager for developers, including work coordination, coaching, feedback, and day-to-day team leadership. 

• Partner closely with the Scrum Master / Business Analyst to co-lead delivery, clarify priorities, and maintain execution discipline. 

• Provide hands-on guidance across .NET Framework, VB.NET, C#, IIS, Angular, SQL Server, and integration-heavy workflows. 

• Review code and database changes for security, performance, maintainability, and regression risk. 

• Own technical release readiness and deployment risk assessment for maintenance releases. 

• Drive root cause analysis quality and preventive actions for recurring production issues. 

• Partner with QA, the separate DevOps and platform team, and the shared database team to keep delivery aligned, testable, and supportable. 

  

Required Skills & Experience 

• 8+ years in enterprise software engineering with strong .NET, IIS, and SQL Server depth. 

• Proven technical leadership in support-heavy, sustainment, or modernization-focused environments. 

• Experience leading developers directly or serving as the de facto delivery lead for an engineering team. 

• Strong debugging and release governance experience across application, data, and environment layers. 

• Experience working with hybrid legacy and modern stacks, including Web Forms and SPA applications. 

• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, and Agile or Scrum delivery. 

  

Qualifications 

• Prior ownership of production stability and post-release quality outcomes. 

• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

• Ability to balance people leadership, technical depth, and active customer support obligations. 

  

Core Competencies 

 

• Technical leadership 

• People leadership 

• Risk management 

• Coaching and mentorship 

• Delivery accountability