Manager - Business Solutions

About the role

This advisory line of service offers a career in information technology focused on leading the design, delivery and support of secure, resilient and scalable enterprise applications. As a Manager, you combine client leadership with technical judgement across the Microsoft application stack, cloud and hosting environments, data platforms, integrations and DevOps. You provide technical direction across client engagements, turn business and payroll requirements into solution designs, govern engineering quality and guide multidisciplinary teams through architecture, build, testing, deployment and production support.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical workstreams and create clarity across architecture, engineering, testing, release and support activities.
• Analyse complex requirements and recommend solutions that balance security, scalability, performance, maintainability, delivery risk and cost.
• Coach technical teams, set quality expectations and communicate technical decisions to clients, engineers and non-technical audiences.
• Own end-to-end architecture for enterprise applications built on C#, ASP.NET.NET and .NET Core, including service boundaries, deployment topology, integrations and data flows.
• Govern object-oriented design, SOLID principles, clean architecture, coding standards, reusable components and technical debt.
• Review designs, code paths, pull requests, database changes and deployment plans, with focus on security, performance and resilience.
• Direct REST and SOAP APIs, web services, event-driven or batch integrations and secure SFTP interfaces using JSON, XML and enterprise data-mapping standards.
• Govern SQL Server engineering, including data modelling, stored procedures, indexing, statistics, execution plans, Query Store, transaction design and concurrency issues.
• Set the DevSecOps approach with Git and Azure DevOps, including branching, peer review, build and release pipelines, automated testing, secrets management and controlled production deployment.
• Define application security controls covering identity, role-based access, least privilege, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, encryption, secure coding, vulnerability remediation and audit logging.
• Oversight of IIS, Windows Server, SQL Server and cloud-hosted workloads, including high availability, load balancing, monitoring, capacity, backup and recovery.
• Lead major incident resolution and root cause analysis, and establish quality gates for unit, integration, API, regression, performance and security testing.
• Partner with Product Leads and client technology teams on architectural decisions, upgrades, obsolescence, risks, dependencies and roadmaps.
• Develop team capability through coaching, design and code reviews, communities of practice and technical training.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience, including technical leadership across enterprise application development, integration, deployment and production support.
• Demonstrable experience leading .NET and SQL Server solutions and reviewing the work of developers, database specialists and integration engineers.
• Experience with hosting, change management, incident management, release governance and end-to-end software delivery lifecycles.
• Experience in HCM, payroll or other data-intensive enterprise platforms is a strong advantage.

Required skills

• C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, Web API and the wider .NET ecosystem.
• SQL Server, T-SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning, indexing and execution plans.
• REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, SFTP and integration with HCM, payroll, finance or identity platforms.
• Azure DevOps or equivalent, Git workflows, CI/CD and automated quality controls.
• OWASP-aligned secure development, identity and access management, encryption and data-protection controls.
• Windows Server, IIS and cloud-hosted workloads.