SOLUTION ARCHITECT L1

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Job Description

Role Purpose

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional architectural solution design and thought leadership and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

͏ Do 1.Develop architectural solutions for the new deals/ major change requests in existing deals

• Creates an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable.
• Provide solutioning of RFP’s received from clients  and ensure overall design assurance
• Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications in order to better match business outcome objectives
• Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration solution design framework/ architecture
• Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
• Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions
• Clearly articulate, document and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
• Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
• Works closely with various IT groups to transition tasks, ensure performance and manage issues through to resolution
• Perform detailed documentation (App view, multiple sections & views) of the architectural design and solution mentioning all the artefacts in detail
• Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view
• Identify problem areas and perform root cause analysis of architectural design and solutions and provide relevant solutions to the problem
• Collaborating with sales, program/project, consulting teams to reconcile solutions to architecture
• Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

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• Provides technical and strategic input during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendation
• Collaborates with all relevant parties in order to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture
• Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts

2.Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/ frameworks

• Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor
• Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
• Manages multiple projects and accurately reports the status of all major assignments while adhering to all project management standards
• Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan for all the projects
• Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
• Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times
• Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts
• Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
• Ensures architecture principles and standards are consistently applied to all the projects
• Ensure optimal Client Engagement
  • Support pre-sales team while presenting the entire solution design and its principles to the client
  • Negotiate, manage and coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed
  • Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the cl