Application Architect

Chennai, India
- Tech Hiring
- 3063124

**Role Purpose**

**Do**
- _Creates an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable._
- _Provide solution of RFP’s received from clients and ensure overall design assurance_
- Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/ architecture
- Depending on the client’s need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs
- 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 and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
- Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
- _Provides technical and strategic inputs during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations_
- _Account mining to find opportunities in the existing clients _
- _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._
- _Creating Intellectual Property in forms of services, patterns, models and organizational approaches_
- _Ensure system capabilities are consumed by system components and set criteria for evaluating technical and business value in terms of Tolerate, Invest, Migrate and Eliminate_
- _Provide platform to create standardize tools, uniform design and techniques are maintained to reduce costs of maintenance_
- _Coordinating input on risks, costs and opportunities for concepts_
- _Perform design and code reviews thoroughly on regular basis, keeping in mind the security measures_
- _Understanding design and production procedures and standards to create prototypes and finished products_
- _Offer viable solutions for various systems and architectures to different types of businesses_
- _Seamless integration of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure and bring value in terms of development_
- _Cloud Transformation: (Migration)_
- Understanding non-functional requirements
- Producing artefacts such as deployment architecture, interface catalogue
- Identify internal and external dependency, vendor and internal IT management
- Support build and testing team
- _Cloud Transformation: (Modernization)_
- Understanding and Defining target architecture in Integration space
- Assessing project pipeline / demand and align to target architecture
- Technical support of delivery team in terms and POC and technical guidance
- _Keep Up-to-date with the latest technologies in the market_
- **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_
- _Collaborate with enterprise architect for translating business strategy to execution_
- _Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results_
- _Bring value in terms of quality in development activities by leveraging cloud based and scalable infrastructure_
- _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_
- _Continuously review session with customers for sustainable development practices_
- _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 client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor
- **_Competency Building and Branding_**
- _Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications_
- _Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, demos etc. for new growth areas based