Sr Application Engineer

Sr. Application Engineer / Solutions Architect Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid) Reports To: Director, Technology Architecture & Platforms Role Type: Senior Individual Contributor / Technical Lead

Overview

Seeking a Sr. Application Engineer to lead the design, development, and support of enterprise applications built with Microsoft Azure and no-code/low-code platforms. This hands-on role combines software engineering, application architecture, code reviews, technical leadership, and mentorship. The position is part of Application Engineering within the Digital Engineering Group and supports custom Azure development (C#/.NET, Python, React), Power Apps, Power Automate, and integrations with Appian-based solutions. The role partners closely with Architecture, Product Management, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Data, Support, Integration, and Quality Engineering teams. No direct reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and support of Azure and low-code applications.
• Develop solutions using C#/.NET, Python, React, Azure services, Power Apps, and Power Automate.
• Build APIs, business logic, data-access components, reusable libraries, templates, and prototypes.
• Modernize legacy applications, spreadsheets, and manual processes.
• Establish engineering standards through code reviews, reusable components, best practices, and mentoring.
• Evaluate when to use low-code solutions versus custom development based on complexity, security, maintainability, and cost.
• Manage application lifecycle processes, versioning, deployments, and environment promotion.
• Collaborate with Integration Engineering on APIs, event-driven services, interfaces, and error handling.
• Partner with Quality Engineering on automated testing, regression coverage, release readiness, and testability.
• Integrate enterprise identity, data, AI, document, and notification services.
• Implement secure development practices including authentication, authorization, managed identities, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
• Utilize source control, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
• Support production releases, troubleshoot complex incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of application development/software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of technical leadership, design guidance, code reviews, and mentoring.
• Strong hands-on experience with C#/.NET, Python, React, and Microsoft Azure.
• Experience developing business applications and workflow automation using Power Apps and Power Automate.
• Knowledge of software design, domain modeling, relational databases, API development, and enterprise application architecture.
• Experience with REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integrations.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, identity federation, service identities, secrets management, and secure development.
• Experience with Git/source control, CI/CD, testing, release management, and application monitoring.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, integration, data, configuration, and performance issues, with the ability to communicate effectively to technical and business stakeholders.