Our client is looking for a Tech Lead with strong .NET, Microsoft Azure, and event-driven microservices experience to lead the technical delivery of a life-sciences cold-chain IoT platform. Tech Stack: Azure, AKS/Kubernetes, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Azure SQL, Dapper, Elasticsearch, Redis, Angular, Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, Terraform, and Helm. Key Responsibilities: Own the technical solution for the MVP and align it with the client architect. Lead technical discovery covering architecture, integrations, NFRs, ERP REST interfaces, and integration contracts. Design event-driven services, including message contracts, ordering, idempotency, replay, late/backfilled device data, and consistency. Drive multi-tenant data isolation, roles/permissions, audit trails, electronic signatures, and data-residency design. Guide the offshore development team through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering standards. Remain hands-on in critical technical areas. Coordinate framework upgrades, environments, CI/CD changes, and releases. Work with QA on technical acceptance, NFRs, performance, and security. Represent the team in PI planning and technical decision forums. Champion AI-assisted engineering using Cursor. Required Skills: 10+ years of software engineering experience with .NET web development. Previous Tech Lead or Solution Architect experience. Strong Azure cloud-native experience: AKS/Kubernetes, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Redis, Key Vault, API Management. Strong event-driven microservices design experience: asynchronous messaging, idempotency, ordering, eventual consistency, and failure recovery. Strong SQL Server and multi-tenant SaaS data modelling experience. Dapper or explicit SQL experience. Working knowledge of Angular / TypeScript. Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, Terraform, and Helm. Security knowledge: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, and RBAC. Strong client-facing communication and distributed-team leadership experience. Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.