Expert Platform Consultant

About the Role: Expert Platform Consultant at SoTalent

SoTalent is seeking an Expert Platform Consultant to design, build, and evolve modern application and data platforms at an enterprise scale. This role uniquely blends hands-on engineering expertise, architectural leadership, and strategic consulting, empowering teams to adopt cloud-ready architectures, modern development practices, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities. You will partner closely with engineering, product, security, and operations leaders to ensure platforms are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with long-term technology strategy. This is an ideal opportunity for professionals who excel in complex technical environments, enjoy influencing strategic technical direction, and are driven by delivering measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering and product teams on platform architecture, modernization, and best practices.
• Influence engineering roadmaps, backlogs, and design decisions through strong stakeholder partnerships.
• Bridge business and technical strategy, ensuring alignment across product and platform roadmaps.
• Design and implement platform services using .NET Core, modern APIs, microservices, and cloud-native patterns.
• Build and optimize SQL-based data solutions, including schema design, performance tuning, and integrations.
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML capabilities into platform services (automation, intelligent workflows, model consumption).
• Lead platform assessments, risk analysis, and high-priority architectural decision-making.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and automation to improve developer experience and delivery speed.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to meet regulatory and governance requirements.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to platform standards, and promote knowledge sharing across teams.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or solution architecture.
• Strong expertise in .NET Core, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Deep experience with SQL (T-SQL, stored procedures, relational modeling, performance tuning).
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven problem-solving skills in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, or other regulated industries.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming platforms.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, Azure AI services, or MLOps.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Background in platform governance, enterprise architecture, or reference architectures.

Why Join SoTalent?

• Remote-first role offering enterprise-scale impact.
• Opportunity to shape next-generation platforms and AI-enabled services.
• Work in a highly collaborative, technically mature environment.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package.
• Meaningful work with visibility across engineering and business leadership.

Key skills/competency

• Platform Engineering
• Cloud Architecture
• .NET Core
• Microservices
• SQL Database Design
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• AI/ML Integration
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Leadership