Architect Ii

Role Proficiency:
Outcomes:

- Select appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components.
- Optimizes efficiency cost and quality.
- Validate results with user representatives integrates and commissions the overall solution.
- Influence and improve customer satisfaction through effects like (but not limited to) offering suggestions for code refactoring and for improvements in business processes completing sprint deliverables ahead of time helping client architects and product owners by way of design suggestions and/or explaining functionality to business stakeholders etc.
- Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams
- Learn and implement newly released technology features wherever possible.
- Attend industry/technology specific conferences (if any) and share knowledge with the team.
- Conduct peer reviews and demand high quality standards from the reviewed deliverables.
- Contribute to ERP/CRM Practice related activities like (but not limited to) assembling content for case studies contributing to reusability coordinating internal seminars and conducting knowledge sharing sessions during organizing sessions and participating in hackathons etc.
- Review design and ensure adoption of industry best practices
- Design execute and maintain business domain solution architecture
- Guide and review technical delivery by internal teams
- Resolve delivery and design issues. Own the design of a complex module for projects of the following nature: architecture enhancements/mid-sized development projects/maintenance projects
- Serve as technology and process expert
- Use expertise and skills in enterprise solutions technologies to develop/enhance the ERP/CRM Practice.

Measures of Outcomes:

- Number of applicable technical/domain certifications completed
- Adherence to process and standards (coding standards)
- Number of mandatory trainings (industry/technology specific trainings UST mandatory trainings) completed
- Adherence to schedule and timelines
- Number of technical sessions conducted within Practice for the benefit of peers and team members.
- Number of RFPs and estimations prepared in ERP/CRM Practice
- Number of Practice members guided to expand their technical knowledge in specific areas apart from their assigned work.
- Contribute to technology capability development (e.g. Training Webinars Blogs)
- Customer feedback on overall project implementation quality (zero technology related escalations)
- Business Development (number of proposals contributed to as applicable)
- Number of technology specific communities in which the role holder is active

Outputs Expected:
Solution Definition & Design:

- Define Architecture for mid-sized type of project.
- Design the technical framework and implement the same.
- Identify and conduct design of complex sub-components /module in collaboration with project team
architects and client SME.
- Present the detailed design documents to relevant stakeholders and seek feedback.
- Undertake project specific Proof of Concepts activities to validate technical feasibility with guidance from the Solution Architect.
- Carry out best optimized solution and resolve performance issues.
- Support the team in the design of functional modules and review the deliverables.
- Conduct code reviews.

Interface with Customer:

- Clarify requirements and provide guidance to development team.
- Present design options to customers.
- Implementation reviews with stakeholders.
- Work closely with customer architects for finalizing design.
- Proactively influence customer thought process

Assists others in resolving complex technical problems:

- Manage all aspects of problem management
investigating the root cause of problems and recommends SMART (specific
measurable
achievable
realistic
timely) solutions

Development and review of Standards & Documentation:

- Maintenance of software process improvement activities and communicate them to a range of individuals
teams and other entities.

Domain relevance:

- Advise software developers on design and development of feature / component with deeper understanding of the business problem being addressed for the client.
- Learn more about the customer domain and identify opportunities to provide value additions to customers.
- Complete relevant domain certifications

Requirement gathering and Analysis:

- Understand functional and non-functional requirements.
- Collect non-functional requirements (such as response time
throughput numbers
user load
etc.) through discussions with SMEs
business users.
- Identify technical aspects as part of story definition
especially at an architecture / component level.

Project Management Support:

- Share technical inputs from Agile/project planning perspective with SCRUM Master / Project Manager.
- Help SCRUM Masters / project managers to understand the technical risks and come-up with mitigation strategies.
- Help developers overcome