Job description

Qualification:

BE/ B Tech/MCA

Responsibility:

Design

 •       End to end responsibility of designing and architecting technology solutions.

 Coding.

 •       Develop architecture and coding standards, review processes as well as project specific templates.

 Deployment Support and Closure.

 •       Assist and advise for general troubleshooting of platform and applications.

 Knowledge Management.

 •       Identifies new Technologies Standards, Best Practices.

•       Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.

•       Develop a repository of technical solutions, technical best practices and design/coding guidelines/standards.

•       Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team.

•       Track contribution to knowledge management portal.

•       Update best practices, white papers, artifacts etc to the database on a regular basis.

•       Publish white papers.

•       Define, execute and continuously improve internal software architecture processes and technology recommendations.

•       Certified in one or many of the EAS function areas.

 Training and Recruitment / People Management.

 •       Assist and guide senior managers and teams in developing highly scalable, reliable and secure solutions.

•       Participate in senior level talent selection.

•       Set clear and objective goals for team & Conduct appraisals.

•       Identify, priorities and deploy action items for competency development.

•       Review progress on employee engagement activities in the architecture track.

•       Direct and guide other managers/team leaders on resolving employee complaints.

•       Identify, groom, reward and develop high performers and future leaders.

•       Mentor all architects in the EAS function.

 Project Planning and Set up.

 •       Conduct project estimations by analyzing business requirements.

•       Identify or build templates to conduct project estimations.

•       Review all estimates as created by the architect(s).

•       Articulate estimation methodology and module level estimations (with focus on effort estimation) for projects / assignments with higher complexity, risks and dependencies.

•       Provide inputs and support to project / program management for project estimates.

•       Identify “road blocks” during solution implementation and provide mitigation.

 Requirement Gathering and Analysis.

 •       Provide support during requirement gathering and analysis (technical perspective during downstream assessment) to the teams.

•       Understand business processes, cases and functions.

•       Understand business problem and impact.

•       Analyze existing enterprise architecture.

 Solution Conceptualization.

 •       Lead development of enterprise wide technology on premise or cloudbased architectures.

•       Good knowledge about known architectures and solution frameworks as well as usage of modelling technique.

•       Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.

•       Study industry trends to remain aware of technology trends.

•       Understand internal/external requirements.

•       Analyze the need for POC based on the strategic roadmap laid out by the enterprise architect.

•       Provide guidance to architects to evaluate various products/ technologies suited for the solution.

•       Review the solution prepared by other architects.

 Ensure that the solution fits holistically in the overall Enterprise Architecture design and does not violate architecture principles.

 •       Conduct economic analysis of architecture.

 Provide support to other teams for building case for PoC to senior management in terms of current organizational need and potential benefits.

 •       Define technical software architectures to drive business and technology strategies.

 Solution Definition and Design.

 •       Formulate conceptual architectures and communicate architectural vision, goals and design objectives to multiple audiences.

•       Provide guidance to solution architect around usage of patterns/anti patterns in the solution.

•       Rephrase the solution if required to minimize the risk of solution.

•       Ensure CTS architecture principles and QOA(Quality of Architecture) are maintained.

•       Analyze tradeoffs and provide recommendations, if any, on the solution architecture.

 Understand business processes, cases and functions.

 Understand business problem and impact.

 Analyze existing enterprise architecture and evaluate other technology/ frameworks.

 •       Understand requirement, analyze feasibility and provide recommendation.

•       Provide support in creation of functional design, logical design, test design and design overview document.

 Project Support.

 •       Conduct planned and unplanned audits for complex projects.

•       Perform architecture design review.

 Identify opportunities for optimization of cost / time / asset utilization in complex projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible.

 •       Manage stakeholder perception.

 Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues in the course of project delivery.

 •       Review design artifacts and code as created by developers / senior developers to ensure it meets architectural requirements, quality and on time delivery.

•       Track various quality metrics around architecture, design and code.

•       Perform codenizant audits for other projects as appropriate to ensure Codenizant principles are implemented.

•       Review all outputs across all SDLC phases from design to testing to ensure NFRs are met.

•       Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.

 Business Development Support.

 •       Scan the market and identify new technology areas which can be adopted in Cognizant.

•       Identify new clients or new needs in the existing clients and share suggestions with Enterprise / Solution Architects.

•       Develop collaterals for proposals.

•       Participate in discussion for client proposals.

•       Provide support for developing RFPs.

 Participate in industry seminars/ conference, if required, to share knowledge and build Cognizant brand.

 •       Conduct occasional training session and participate in various consultancy, presales and bid defense meetings.

 Alliance Management.

 •       Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.

•       Identify areas for joint GTM with the partner.

•       Develop internal capabilities/complementary toolsets to support the GTM strategy.

•       Maintain the relationship with partners.

•       Act as the Cognizant technical POC for the specific technology/solution area.

 Must Have Skills

 •       Salesforce Service Cloud

•       Salesforce Sales Cloud

•       Salesforce Analytics & Report

•       Salesforce Integration

•       Salesforce Configuration

•       Manufacturing Oper-Manlog

 Good To Have Skills

 •       Salesforce Customization

•       Salesforce Campaign

•       Salesforce Exact Target

•       ANSI SQL

•       Core Java

Qualifications:

Technical Skills

 Domain Skills

* Proficiency Legends