Application Architect

Year    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Job Description


Overview:


Role Purpose

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional and detailedarchitectural application design and provide thought leadership andenable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement andsatisfaction.
JOB DESCRIPTION

  • Experience with data warehouse tools: GCP BigQuery, GCP BigData, Dataflow, Teradata, etc.
  • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Data Build Tool (DBT), Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Google Cloud PubSub, etc.
  • Experience with GCP cloud services: Primarily BigQuery, Kubernetes, Cloud Function, Cloud Composer, PubSub etc.
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, Terraform etc.
  • Experience with CICD pipeline and workflow management tools: GitHub Enterprise, Cloud Build, Codefresh etc.
  • Experience with Data Analytics and Visualization Tools: Tableau BI Tool (OnPrem and SaaS), Data Analytics Workbench (DAW), Visual Data Studio etc.
  • GCP Data Engineer certification is mandatory

Responsibilities
  • Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
  • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
  • Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
  • Build and maintain the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and GCP data warehousing technologies.
  • Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
  • Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
  • Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through data centers and GCP regions.
  • Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in the data systems.

Qualifications
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
  • Experience building and optimizing data warehousing data pipelines (ELT and ETL), architectures and data sets.
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
  • Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
  • A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
  • Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable \xe2\x80\x98big data\xe2\x80\x99 data stores.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills.
  • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Additional Responsibilities:
  • 1. Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal deliverysolutions/ frameworks
    • Build and maintain relationships with executives, technicalleaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders tobecome a trusted advisor
    • Collaborate with enterprise architect for translating businessstrategy to execution
    • Develops and establishes relevant technical, business processand overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
    • Bring value in terms of quality in development activities byleveraging cloud based and scalable infrastructure
    • Manages multiple projects and accurately reports the status ofall major assignments while adhering to all project management standards
    • Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a riskmitigation plan for all the projects
    • Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or designdecisions and provides technical mitigation support to the deliveryteams
    • Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivityand reduced cycle times
    • Continuously review session with customers for sustainabledevelopment practices
    • Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise frameworkand related artefacts
    • Develops trust and builds effective working relationshipsthrough respectful, collaborative engagement across individual productteams
    • Ensures architecture principles and standards are consistentlyapplied to all the projects
    • Ensure optimal Client Engagement
      • Support pre-sales team while presenting the entire solution designand its principles to the client
      • Negotiate, manage and coordinate with the client teams to ensure allrequirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed
  • Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability infront of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor



2. Competency Building and Branding


  • Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications
  • Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, demos etc. fornew growth areas based on market and customer research
  • Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on applicationdesign and architect by writing white papers, blogs etc.
  • Attain market referencability and recognition through highestanalyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits
  • Be the voice of Wipro\xe2\x80\x99s Thought Leadership by speaking inforums (internal and external)
  • Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects in theproject for their further career development and enhancement
  • Contribute to the architecture practice by conducting selectioninterviews etc.

3. Team Management



  • Resourcing
    • Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/ industrytrends or client requirements
    • Hire adequate and right resources for the team
  • Talent Management
    • Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members toenhance capability & effectiveness
    • Build an internal talent pool and ensure their career progressionwithin the organization
  • Manage team attrition
  • Drive diversity in leadership positions
  • Performance Management
    • Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews andprovide constructive feedback to own direct reports
    • Ensure that the Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team
  • Employee Satisfaction and Engagement
    • Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team
    • Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to buildengagement within the team



Stakeholder Interaction





Stakeholder Type


Stakeholder Identification


Purpose of Interaction



Internal


Delivery teams


Review of architectural process deployment in engagements,escalation management, issue resolution, delivery assurance andexcellence



Pre-sales team

For solutioning and architectural design purpose



Quality Assurance


Periodic review of architecture



Practice teams


To understand the different solution portfolios



Holmes engineering and roll out


For automation purpose



Talent Transformation Team, Competency Group


Plan and support delivery of Technical Trainings, knowledgesharing



HRBP

For hiring and managing resources



External


Vendors/ Partners


For strategic alignment and partnerships, training



Industry forums

Best practices, market intelligence, knowledge sharing


Display



Lists the competencies required to perform this role effectively:
  • Functional Competencies/ Skill
    • Domain/Industry Knowledge \xe2\x80\x93 Awareness and knowledge of broadeconomic, demographic, technological and global trends within ownecosystem \xe2\x80\x93 Master
    • Market Intelligence \xe2\x80\x93 Deep specialized understanding of theecosystem practice, overall market & competition and nuances ofdelivery in that domain \xe2\x80\x93 Master
    • Systems Thinking \xe2\x80\x93 Understanding of the Wipro system(interrelatedness, interdependencies and boundaries) and perform problemsolving in a complex environment - Expert
    • Leveraging Technology \xe2\x80\x93 In-depth knowledge of and mastery overecosystem technology that commands expert authority respect \xe2\x80\x93Master
    • Asset reusability \xe2\x80\x93 ability to re-use the assets to ensurescalability and optimization - Expert
    • Technical knowledge \xe2\x80\x93 architecture design principles,framework and documentation - Master





Competency Levels



Foundation


Knowledgeable about the competency requirements. Demonstrates (inparts) frequently with minimal support and guidance.


Competent


Consistently demonstrates the full range of the competency withoutguidance. Extends the competency to difficult and unknown situations aswell.


Expert


Applies the competency in all situations and is serves as a guide toothers as well.


Master


Coaches others and builds organizational capability in the competencyarea. Serves as a key resource for that competency and is recognisedwithin the entire organization.

  • Behavioral Competencies
    • Strategic perspective
    • Stakeholder Management
    • Technology Acumen
    • Innovation
    • Managing Complexity
    • Client centricity
    • Execution excellence
    • Self-Learning
    • Domain Experience
    • Change agility
    • Passion for results
    • Nurturing people
    • Executive presence



Deliver





No.


Performance Parameter


Measure



1.

Support sales team to create wins

% of proposals with Quality Index >7, timely support of theproposals, identifying opportunities/ leads to sell services within/outside account (lead generation), no. of proposals led


2.

Delivery support

CSAT, delivery as per cost, quality and timelines, Identify anddevelop resuable components, utilization %, Recommend tools for reuse,automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times, # ofreusable components


3.

Capability development

% trainings and certifications completed, increase in ACEcertifications, thought leadership content developed (white papers,Wipro PoVs)


4.

Practice Building

Identifying opportunities for architects in the account and outsidethrough known contacts, Contribute towards domain and technologyaccelerator kits, Mentoring junior architects


5.

Team Management

Team attrition %, Employee satisfaction score

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  • Job Id
    JD3146612
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Education
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  • Experience
    Year