Principal Architect-technology

**Principal Architect**

**Qualification**:
Science / Engineering graduate
** Responsibility**:
**Innovation and Thought Leadership**:

- ' '¢Â Participate in external forums (seminars paper presentation etc) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights.
- '¢ Interact and engage with customers/ partners around new innovative ideas concepts assets.
- as well as industry trends and implications.
- '¢ Identify areas where components/accelerators or design patterns could be reused across different accounts.
- '¢ Create documents reports white papers (international/national) on the research findings.

**Technology Consulting**:

- '''¢ Define Problem statement for the customer.
- '¢ Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options.
- '¢ Define the technology/ architecture roadmap for the client.
- '¢ Articulate the cost vs benefits of options to key stakeholders in customer.

**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.

**Knowledge Management & Capability Development**:

- ' '¢ Provide inputs to teams for training etc.
- '¢ Identify the training needs and conduct internal sessions to meet the same.
- '¢ Partner with Cognizant academy to Create curriculum assessments training programs courseware based on new service offerings / solutions etc.
- '¢ Update collateral on to the knowledge management repository.
- '¢ Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer.

**Project Control and Review**:

- '¢ Perform architecture design review.
- '¢ Identify opportunities for optimization of cost / time / asset utilization in complex projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible.
- '¢ Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues in the course of project delivery.
- '¢ Conduct planned and unplanned technical audits for complex projects as applicable.
- '¢ 'Define and measure project /program specific architectural and technology quality metrics.
- '¢ Review outputs to ensure NFRs are met.

**People Management**:

- ' '¢ Provide support to various project managers in identification of training needs of their sub ordinates.
- '¢ Conduct training / certifications with the help of academy and mentoring with respect to technical skills on projects.
- '¢ Perform career guidance and performance management for team members.

**Asset Development and Governance**:

- ' '¢ Provide thought leadership in conceptualizing the need and design of assets.
- '¢ Track implementation of assets.
- '¢ Improve asset effectiveness.
- '¢ Improve deployment effectiveness.

**Sales Support and Project Estimation**:

- ' '¢ Develop collaterals for proposals.
- '¢ Conduct workshops at the client site to assist the sales team in sales support if required.
- '¢ Compare various designs and propose appropriate technology solutions based on the understanding of the RFP and inputs from Architects.
- '¢ Calculate and present estimates based on high level designs to management for supporting in go/ no go decisions.
- '¢ Review estimations and resource plan.
- '¢ Review risk and mitigation plan.
- '¢ Anchor proposal development with cross linkages across multiple competency units & arrive at a coherent solution unique value propositions and clear differentiators.
- '¢ Participate in client presentation and client visits.

**New Service Design**:

- '¢ Identify potential opportunities for new service offerings based on customer voice/ partner inputs / industry connects and trends.
- '¢ Support the development of business case for investments for approval from senior management.
- '¢ Work with partners to co develop a joint GTM (as applicable).
- '¢ Develop IP/tools and framework to address the opportunity technically.
- '¢ Conduct beta testing / POC as applicable.
- '¢ Develop collaterals guides for GTM.

**Requirement gathering and Analysis**:

- ''¢ Understand the requirements from a larger system / transformation program context.

**Solution Definition & Design**:

- '¢Ensure alignment of the high level architecture with the existing client need and business logic / review design prepared by architects.
- '¢ Ensure the involvement of right teams in solution design.
- '¢ Ensure tec hnical integrate ability requirements compliance of the solution especially in case of a multi group / multi vendor program.
- '¢ Involve external partners / horizontals as appropriate.
- '¢ Provide guidance to solution architect around usage of patterns/anti patterns in the solution.
- '¢ Ensure CTS architecture principles and QOA(Quality of Architecture) are maintained.
- Analyze trade offs and provide recommendatio