Sr. Manager

Principal Technology Architect

Qualification:

Responsibility:

• • Endtoend 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 enterprisewide 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

• SFDC Devlpmnt & Customization

• Salesforce DevOPS

• SFDC Lightning

• SFDC Integration

Good To Have Skills

• Salesforce CloudSense

• Omnistudio

• Salesforce Experience Cloud

• SFDC Sharing and Visibility

• SFDC Data

• SFDC Configuration

• After Sales&Serv(Manlog)