Job Description

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Role Proficiency: Design and implement Infrastructure/Cloud Architecture for a mid to large size projects

Outcomes: * Design and Develop the architecture; the technical owner for projects

• Provide technical expertise across the practice
• Managing a significant stream of work independently; where required lead small technical team.
• Own / Resolve architectural issues spanning across multiple technologies
• Responsible for architectural frameworks; recommending tools relevant to the project

Measures of Outcomes: * # of reusable components / processes developed # of times components / processes reused

• Contribution to technology capability development (e.g. Training Webinars Blogs)
• Customer feedback on overall technical quality (zero technology related escalations)
• Relevant Technology certifications
• Business Development (# of proposals contributed to # Won)
• # white papers/document assets published / working prototypes

Outputs Expected: Solution Definition & Design: * Define Architecture for mid to large size projects

• Design the technical framework and implement the same

• Present the detailed design documents to relevant stakeholders and seek feedback

• Undertake project specific Proof of Concepts activities to validate technical feasibility with guidance from the Senior Architect

• Implement best optimized solution and resolve any performance issues

Requirement gathering and Analysis: * Understand the functional and non-functional requirements

• Collect non-functional requirements through discussions with SME and business users

• Identify technical aspects as part of story definition

especially at an architecture / component level
Project Management Support: * Share technical input to Project Managers/ SCRUM Master

• Help SCRUM Masters / Project Managers understand the technical risks and come-up with mitigation strategies

• Help Associates and Leads overcome technical challenges

Technology Consulting: * Analysis of technology landscape

process
tools based on project objectives

• Work on Due Diligence

Assessment projects
Business and Technical Research: * Analyse and assess tools (internal/external) within specific parameters

• Prepare recommendations based on findings of Proof of Concept

• Analyse and identify new tools etc (e.g. methodologies

frameworks
accelerators
etc.)

• Develop outcome-based solutions

market entry strategies/ based on analysis of technology and industry trends assessment.

• Participate in customer visits

Project Estimation: * Provide support for project estimations for business proposals and support sprint level / component level estimates

• Articulate estimation methodology

module level estimations for more standard projects with focus on effort estimation alone
Proposal Development: * Contribute to proposal development from technology/architecture perspective

• Participate in client engagements (pursuits

projects
discussions); own the solution from a technical point of view. Assist in running client workshops
Knowledge Management & Capability Development: * Conduct technical trainings/ Webinars to impart knowledge to CIS / project teams

• Create collaterals (e.g. case study

business value documents
summary
etc.)

• Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting

• Contribute to knowledge repository and tools

• Creating reference architecture model

reusable components from the project

• Contribute to thought leadership through UST journals

Process Improvements / Delivery Excellence: * Identify avenues to improve project delivery parameters (e.g. productivity

efficiency
process
security
etc.) by leveraging tools
automation
etc.

• Understand various technical tools used in the project (third party as well as home-grown) to improve efficiency and productivity

Alliance Management: * Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements

specific to program

• In collaboration with senior architects create a compelling business case around the offerings

• Conduct beta testing of the offerings with relevance to program

Skill Examples: * Use Industry Knowledge to understand business requirements create POC to meet business requirements under guidance

• Use technical knowledge to analyse technology based on client's specific requirement analyse and understand existing implementations work on technology implementations (POC) guide the developers and enable them in the implementation
• Use knowledge of Architecture Concepts and Principles to provide input to the senior architects towards building component solutions. Deploy the solution as per the architecture under guidance
• Use Tools and Principles to create low level design for the given business requirements
• Use Estimation and Resource Planning knowledge to help estimate and plan resources for specific mid-sized projects with detailed requirements in place
• Use Knowledge Management Tools & Techniques to participate in the knowledge management process (such as Project specific KT Due Diligence). Consume/contribute to the knowledge management repository
• Use knowledge of Technical Standards Documentation & Templates to understand and interpret the documents provided
• Use Solution Structuring knowledge to understand the proposed solution provide input to create draft proposals/ RFP (including effort estimation scheduling resource loading etc.)

Knowledge Examples: * Solution Structuring: Working knowledge of CIS service offerings and products.
2 Domain/ Industry Knowledge: Basic knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical and customer business domain * Technology Knowledge: Deep working knowledge on one technology tower; gaining more knowledge in Cloud and Security

• Estimation and Resource Planning: Working knowledge of estimation and resource planning techniques
• Technical Standards Documentation & Templates: Good knowledge of various document templates and standards (such as technical blueprint design documents etc)
• Have industry recognized certification

Additional Comments:

Configurations, management and troubleshooting on the middleware tools like Websphere,Jboss,ActiveMQ,Apache,IIS etc. Automation skills in Ansible.