Sr. Architect - Technology
Location
Chennai | India
Job description
Job Description
Sr Architect
Qualification :
Science / Engineering graduate
Responsibility :
Innovation and Thought Leadership :
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Participate in external forums (seminars paper presentation etc) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights under guidance of senior team members.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Understand client's existing business and explore new avenues to save cost and bring process efficiency.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Identify business opportunities to create reusable components/accelerators and reuse existing components and best practices.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Support the patent filing process for the IP assets created (applicable to some CoEs).
Technology Consulting :
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 In collaboration with the Sr Architect analyze application/ technology landscape process tools and arrive at the solution options best fit for the client.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options.
- Support Sr Architect to create a technology/ architecture roadmap for the client.
Alliance Management :
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 In collaboration with Sr Architect create a compelling business case around the offerings.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Conduct beta testing of the offerings.
Knowledge Management & Capability Development :
- ' u00E2u20ACu00A2 Publish and Maintain a repository of solutions best practices and standards and other knowledge articles.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Support Technical skill building (including hiring and training) for the team based on inputs from project manager.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Mentor new members in the team in technical areas.
- Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer.
People Management :
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Set goals & Manage performance of reporting team members.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Provide career guidance to team members.
Asset Development and Governance :
- ' u00E2u20ACu00A2 Understand the plan for asset development.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Design assets as per plan (if required).
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Conduct pilot run/review to validate the assets as feasible.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Track utilization of reusable assets / architecture components across the organization.
Sales Support and Project Estimation :
- ' u00E2u20ACu00A2 Support for developing RFPs and collaterals for proposals from a technical solution/ estimation/ risks perspective.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Conduct demo's and arrange for the demos based on client profiles if required.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Anchor proposal development with cross linkages across multiple competency units to arrive at a coherent solution proposal with focus on presenting unique value propositions and clear differentiators.
Requirement gathering and Analysis :
- ' u00E2u20ACu00A2 Work with customer and other teams to collect analyze and understand the requirements including NFRs.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Analyze gaps/ trade offs based on current system context/ industry practices and clarify the requirements by working with the customer.
Solution Definition & Design :
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Develop / Enhance the solution architecture (Application / technical / Infrastructure as applicable) meeting functional / non functional requirements and aligned to industry best practices.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Solution Design (including Data modeling Application design Infrastructure design Team structure) & Capacity sizing to meet the requirements & SLAs of target state and in transition as applicable.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Identify Proof Of Concept testing (POC) needs and conduct POCs as applicable.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Identify need for developing accelerators and Develop as applicable specific to the engagement.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Identify key technical metrics to measure the SLA / requirements compliance.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Define adopt and create required documentation on standards and guidelines.
Stakeholder Management :
- ' u00E2u20ACu00A2 Monitor the concerns of internal stakeholders follow through on commitments and achieve timely resolution of issues.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Conduct initiatives to meet client expectations.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Work to expand professional network in the client organization.
Business and Technical Research :
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Analyze market trends / client requirements/ secondary research.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Identify new ideas and provide inputs to senior stakeholders for developing blueprint / PoC.
Brand Building :
- ' u00E2u20ACu00A2 'Organize/ Participate in events like webinars boot camps seminar conference client conference to showcase the capability.
- u00E2u20ACu00A2 Identify opportunities to cross solutionize across project(s) within or outside the BU.
Must Have Skills
Employee Status : Full Time Employee
Shift : Day Job
Travel : No
Job Posting : Feb 22 2024
About Cognizant
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