Integration Architect

Overview:
**Role Purpose**
- The purpose of the role is to create exceptional integration architectural solution design and thought leadership and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction._

**Do**
- **Define integration architecture for the new deals/ major change requests in existing deals**
- _Creates an enterprise-wide integration architecture that ensures that systems are seamlessly integrated while being scalable, reliable, and manageable._
- _Provide solutioning for digital integration for RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance_
- Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of integration solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
- Define and understand current state integration solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions
- Clearly articulate, document and use integration patterns, best practices and processes.
- Evaluate and recommend products and solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
- Works closely with various IT groups to transition tasks, ensure performance and manage issues through to resolution
- Document integration architecture covering logical, deployment and data views mentioning all the artefacts in detail
- Validate the integration solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view
- Identify problem areas and perform root cause analysis of integration 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 integration trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs
- _Provides technical and strategic input during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations_
- _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._
- **Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/ frameworks**
- _Build and maintain relationships with technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor_
- _Develops and establishes relevant integration metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results_
- _Identify risks related to integration and prepares a risk mitigation plan _
- _Ensure quality assurance of the integration architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams_
- _Leads the development and maintenance of integration framework and related artefacts_
- _Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams_
- _Ensures integration architecture principles, patterns 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
- Coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an effective integration solution
- Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor
- **_Competency Building and Branding_**
- _Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications on integration middleware_
- _Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs),case studies, demos etc. for new growth areas and solve new customer problems based on market and customer research _
- _Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on digital integration by writing white papers, blogs etc. _
- _Help in attaining market recognition through analyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits _
- _Be the voice of Wipro’s Thought Leadership by speaking in forums (internal and external) _
- _Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects in the project for their further career development and enhancement_
- _Contribute to the integration practice by conducting selection interviews etc._
- **Team Management**
- _Resourcing_
- Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/ industry trends or client _requirements_
- Support in hiring adequate and right resources for the team through conducting interviews
- _Talent Management_
- Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability & effectiveness
- _Performance Management_
- Provide inputs to project manager in setting appraisal objectives for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports (if present)

**_Stakeholder Interaction_**

**_Stakeholder Type_**

**_Stakeholder Identification_**

**_Purpose of Interaction_**

**_Internal_**
- Delivery teams_
- Define integration architecture and review integra