Scalable REST APIs, Microservices architecture Required 7 Years Event-Driven Systems & ORM: Azure Event Grid, Service Bus, or Event Hubs; ORM (Entity Framework, Sequelize, Prisma) Required 7 Years Database & Modeling: SQL Server (optimized queries), Cosmos DB (NoSQL), Data modeling and schema design Required 7 Years Data Orchestration: Integrations with Azure Data Factory Nice to Have 7 Years DevOps & Infrastructure: Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions, IaC (Bicep, ARM, or Terraform), Containerization (Docker) & Orchestration (AKS) Required 7 Years Testing & Quality Assurance: Automated testing frameworks and test strategy design Required 7 Years Software Engineering Principles: Distributed systems, Clean Architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), SOLID principles, OpenAPI/Swagger Required 7 Years Security & Compliance: Security best practices (OWASP, secure secrets management, zero-trust principles) Required 7 Years Leadership & Collaboration: Mentoring developers, leading technical discussions, cross-team collaboration (Security, QA, Product, DevOps) Required 7 Years Problem Solving & Communication: Architectural decision-making, stakeholder communication (technical and non-technical) Required 7 Years Project Planning: Effort estimation, sprint planning, and technical roadmap design Required 7 Years Skill / Competency Category Requirement Type Experience Required Azure Core & Data: App Services, Functions, Kubernetes Service (AKS), Storage (Blob, Table, Queue), SQL / Cosmos DB Required 7 Years Cloud Governance & Integration: API Management, DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards), Identity & Access (Azure AD, OAuth2, OpenID Connect) Required 7 Years Frontend Engineering: JavaScript / TypeScript, Modern Frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue), State Management (Redux, MobX, NgRx) Required 7 Years UI & Client Integration: Responsive UI (HTML/CSS), REST and GraphQL client-side integration Required 7 Years Backend & Architecture: