Lead Developer

Overview

Lead Developer on the Chase Media Central programme at WPP ET, providing hands-on technical leadership for custom extensions, integrations, data flows and application components built to enterprise standards.

What you'll do

• Provide technical direction for development across integrations, application components and platform workflows.
• Define and enforce coding standards, branching strategies, documentation expectations and review practices.
• Lead code reviews and ensure consistent engineering quality across all developers.
• Translate complex technical requirements into clear, implementable designs and patterns.
• Design and develop solutions across C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Azure services and related Microsoft technologies.
• Build and maintain integration components between Media Central (Business Central) and local or global media and finance systems.
• Prepare detailed technical design documentation and contribute to refinement of user stories and backlog items.
• Participate in unit, regression and functional testing, supporting QA through defect clarification and validation.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues with structured root-cause analysis.
• Support business-critical applications and ensure continuity through robust troubleshooting and fix delivery.
• Create and maintain support guides, release notes and knowledge-sharing artefacts.
• Work closely with BI, QA, Data, Implementation and Product teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Collaborate with vendor teams to clarify requirements, validate behaviours and maintain alignment with global delivery timelines.
• Champion development best practices, automation opportunities and process enhancements.
• Coach developers and junior engineers to build capability and improve code quality.
• Drive reusability, standardisation and performance improvements across integration and application components.

What you'll need

• 5–7 years of application development experience with deep expertise in Microsoft technologies (C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Azure).
• Strong understanding of integration practices (e.g., REST patterns, scheduled data sync, data transformation logic).
• Solid grounding in development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall), CI/CD, version control and modern DevOps-aligned workflows.
• Ability to design and review technical architecture components, data flows, interface contracts and solution documentation.
• Experience preparing and validating technical specifications, user stories, test cases and design artefacts.
• Ability to lead and support developers in complex problem-solving and architectural decisions.
• Strong analytical capability to break down technical challenges and propose scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple regions.
• High attention to detail; proactive, flexible mindset; strong ownership of delivery.

Nice to have

• Experience with O365 SaaS development tools (PowerApps, Power BI, Power Automate).
• Familiarity working with Business Central or other ERP systems (SAP/Oracle).
• Exposure to BI/ETL workflows, data reconciliation and cross-system data dependency management.

Details

• Hybrid working, with teams in the office around four days a week.
• Location: Chennai, India.