.Net Architect – AI-Led Resiliency & Modernization

Application Architect – AI-Led Resiliency & Modernization

Location: Dallas, TX

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Employment Type: Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and architect enterprise applications, microservices, and APIs using .NET.
• Assess applications to identify resiliency, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and operational gaps.
• Design and implement resiliency patterns including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, failover, and idempotency.
• Drive AI/Agentic AI, SRE, Reliability Engineering, Observability, and Production Engineering initiatives.
• Perform application performance engineering, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, telemetry, and reliability metrics including SLIs/SLOs.
• Work with cloud-native architectures, Kafka/messaging platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead application modernization efforts focused on maintainability, observability, security, and stability.
• Translate assessment findings into actionable engineering initiatives, Jira stories, and implementation backlogs.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and operations teams to improve overall application reliability and operational excellence.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on .NET development experience.
• Experience with enterprise applications, microservices, APIs, and SDLC best practices.
• Strong knowledge of AI/Agentic AI, SRE, Reliability Engineering, Observability, and Production Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with application resiliency patterns.
• Strong application performance engineering and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, telemetry, and SLIs/SLOs.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong database, analytical, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience driving application modernization and production stability initiatives.